What is Hacking? If you think to get into someone's Facebook account, google account, and Netflix account is called hacking? That's not true. In PC networking, hacking is any technical effort to control the conduct of network associations and associated systems. MIT engineers during the 1960s completed some harmless technical analyses and fun learning exercises. These were supposed hacks. Before the internet, a few hackers in the US experimented with methods to modify telephones for making 'FREE' long-distance calls over the phone network illegally. As PC networking and the internet exploded in popularity, information systems turned into the widest target of hackers.Malicious attacks on PC systems are known as cracking, while at the same time hacking really applies just to exercises m...