Hacking

What is hacking? Hacking is the bypass of a systems or networks security, but

is it all bad?
Hacking comes in many forms, so its purpose is
The 5 Main types of hacking:

DDoS Attacks
A DDoS attack causes a network or system to slow down. It floods it with pings
which causes one or more systems to crash.

Virus
A virus main purpose is to spread, like a virus spreads between humans. If a
computer becomes infected, use a USB stick, and it will become infected,
connect up with another computer and it will become infected, and so on.

Trojan Horse
A Trojan horse disguises itself as a good piece of data, and then it will suddenly
start infecting your computer. This could be anything form keystroke loggers
(collecting data about what you type and where you type it) to an annoying addon to your browser.

Malicious Websites
Malicious websites could just be websites that host viruses, or website that are
able to track and access whats in your PCs directory.

Worms
Worms

Examples
SoBig worm - A user would receive an email. In it would be a file, which when
opened it