When it comes to the term “hacking” whether it is someone’s memory or RAM, everyone starts to worry about their information. What is “hacking of memory”? It is to circumvent security and break into with malicious intent. It is finding a way into your computer without your permission let alone your knowledge to gain information like banking and documents. On a larger scale it also means getting into banks and big companies like Target or more recently Sony to gain access to accounts and thus steal money/information. There is however steps to prevent this from happening with the right equipment. To know how to prevent someone from hacking into your computer you first have to know what tools they use. There are a plethora of programs that are used some being dSniff, Netcat and John the Ripper. DSniff passively monitors a network for interesting data like passwords, e-mails, files etc. Netcat is designed to be a dependable back-end that has features that include port scanning, transferring files, port listening, and worse used as a backdoor. John the Ripper is a popular password testing and breaking programs but hackers would use it for the later. For dSniff, someone would have to first have access to your computer by the user either downloading the program by accident or the hacker pushing it to you. Then the tool is activated and monitors your computer for the right information. John the Ripper is used to break into computers and external hard drives. It would not be a tool that would be used to hack into a Facebook or Gmail account as they have extra measures for that method. Now that we know some different tools that hackers use we need to know some basic steps to stopping the hackers from entering your space. These few simple tasks will make it that much harder for someone that you don’t know have access to all of your valuable information. Keeping your system