Create a 6 pages page paper that discusses the impact of hacking in todays firms. It is evidently clear from the discussion that people who constantly perform the acts of testing and manipulating computer systems and programs are known as hackers. Hacking can be performed legally or illegally. Hackers can be employed by organizations to protect the organization from harmful attacks from other hackers. Hackers are known to perform cyber crime. Cybercrime is unlawful penetration of computer network as Ericson mentions. The hackers have ethics which they follow. Those who do not abide by the ethics tarnish the name of hackers giving them a bad reputation. Hacking can take different forms depending on the activities. Types of hacking include password cracking, brute force, Denial of Service, Viruses, crimeware, and bots. Password cracking entails using a structured query language to get passwords from non secured or secured websites. People have numerous usernames and password and tend to use similar ones for convenience. The hackers use the username and password to access valuable websites such as banks. Brute force hacking uses an automatic system to generate the password by recreating or guessing a new password. To ensure that hackers cannot attack at random, it is important to create long passwords and use different passwords for different sites. Denial of service is a type of hacking attack that works against an organization. The organization’s server gets poor network communication which results in broken communication. The server ends up slowing down and may eventually crash. The targeted organizations have online trading. If the organization does not get to pay off the hackers, it may end up losing money and reputation. Crimeware is another type of hacking where hackers use crimeware packs to sell malware and conduct money laundering activities. Hijacker and ransomware are categorized together with crimeware. Hijackers will divert a browser to an advertising site.