Showing posts with label Hacker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hacker. Show all posts

Friday, March 7, 2014

Confessions of a Computer Program Hacker




As an independent Game developer, my Hacking skills were needed more than ever. First I needed to research a number of game engines to discover which would better serve the type of games I want to develop. I knew I wanted to develop adventure games. I had been playing adventure games ever since Sierra introduced the King's Quest series. I was impressed the growth of game GUI, story telling, and sophistication as I played each succeeding game. Too bad Sierra Jumped the Shark Tank with King's Quest 8.





My goal is to develop an adventure game with that sense of wonder I felt each time I played a new KQ game. I have been researching for about 12 months and working with my chosen game engine for about 8 months, Unity 3D.





Hacking will take on a new form for me here. I will do less code research in Unity 3D and more functionality research. Unity 3D already has a JavaScript interface for game activity and animation development, so my “hacking” will actually be outside the Unity 3D code itself and will more appropriately involve working with the traditional API's that Unity 3D provides.





I will need to rely upon other artists for voice, music, background, characters, and some programming as I continue to work on story development and puzzles which I will also require help with. In creating a successful game I will need a whole spectrum of Craftspeople to pull off what I hope will be a successful franchise of games that appeal to all ages.





Look for Booh and Babbot in The Haunted House Of Dracula, the first in their franchise game series. It is a work in progress.


Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Training To Be An Ethical Computer Hacker






The fraudulent hacking of computers has always been one of great concern; now however, because computer crime has grown to such an extent, there is a special hacker-training course for the purpose of training professional hackers for combating it. The large corporations now find it necessary to keep cyber hacking staff for twenty-four hour observation of anyone trying to break in to their computer networks with fraudulent unethical intentions. This is essential to avoid the disabling of the computers by viruses from the criminal hacking methods and the extraction and spreading of classified and other information for use on other foreign computers.

Certified Ethical Hacker Training (CEH)

This intensive course of hacker training or boot camps, specifically prepare the candidates to be able to pass the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker exam 312-50. A course that has now been added to the DOD 8570 Directive. This particular course prepares and provides the students with the tools and intrinsic knowledge of enabling them capable of protecting and understanding critical situations that can arise from computer hacking by unauthorized outside sources. Instructors train them with several of the tools that a hacker can use, and they further learn which countermeasures are most effective.

At the completion of a course, the pupils are ready for the EC-Council Certified Hacker exam. Cyber hacking is recognised worldwide as a very viable career, for the prevention of intruders to high profile computer systems. Fraudulent hackers use every possible means known for entering the networks they want information from, especially forcing an entry and using the means of a virus. Once in, they can extract any data that they require for their illegal use and operation, without anyone noticing until it is too late. For this reason, the introduction of certified ethical hacker training became added to the specialized computer-training courses.

Viruses

As a virus or for that matter viruses, can be transmitted to other computer systems without their hosts being aware of their entry, and, having the capability of disabling their codes and systems very quickly, causing an unnecessary amount of unproductive time to be spent on the ridding of these unwanted worms. For this reason, corporations employ ethical hackers of their own to prohibit these unethical entries from occurring. Professional hackers are equipped to handle these situations, having undergone the specialized hacker training, and so ensuring that the computer systems that they are operating, are as secure and protected, as is possible.

Safeguarding cyber hacking

The professional hackers, specializing in maximum security of the computers, having passed the certified ethical hacker training course, use similar equipment for protecting their systems, as do the fraudsters who wish to enter the websites for their own means. It is imperative for the professionals with their hacker training, to keep up to date knowledge for safeguarding the infrastructure of their computers as a daily routine, to protect and insure that illegal entry is impossible.

Large corporations and big businesses alike, government, other law enforcement agencies and criminal forensic laboratories, all employ the use of hacking professionals as part of their personnel. This becomes a crucial factor with the potential evidence concerning various criminal case prosecutions, and equally important for computer specialists in the field of forensics to have the ability at various times to think like the criminal hacker does. However, the professional hackers with their Computer Forensics Training are alert and quickly able to deal with any form of unusual situation that problematically arises with regard to their data and website.

Today, no large business or conglomeration can afford not to have some specialized personnel proficient with hacker training in their IT department to combat and prevent unauthorized entry to their computers.


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