Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing - Controvarsy

The term "Hacking", whenever comes in mind lead your thoughts towards E-crime, Security breach, Cyber attack, System compromise and disclosure of personal credentials. A crime is always a crime and an illegal action of compromising something with devil purpose. Like that Hacking is world most known word for e-crime. As few security experts says "if hacking is crime" than how a crime can be ethical ?

Vulnerability Assessments Vs Penetration Testing

Newbies in Information security field mostly get confused with these two terms "Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration testing", because in both cases we have to asses either whole security program, a system or specified security controls to find flaws/and report these flaws to management.