Ethical hacking
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An ethical hacker tests a security system on behalf of its owners by attempting to find and report vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit using the same methods. Ethical hacking, also known as penetration testing or intrusion testing, involves attacking a target system in various ways such as exploiting software vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or abusing trust to assess security. While it began in government and technology sectors, ethical hacking is increasingly common outside these fields as many large companies maintain ethical hacking teams.
Ethical hacking
- 1. An ethical hacker is a computer and increasingly common outside the network expert who attacks a security government and technology sectors where system on behalf of its owners, seeking it began. Many large companies, such as vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker IBM, maintain employee teams of ethical could exploit. hackers. To test a security system, ethical hackers Attack Types and Vulnerabilities: use the same methods as their less There exist numerous ways to principled counterparts, but report attack a target system. It could be problems instead of taking advantage of achieved by exploiting known them. vulnerabilities in software or taking Ethical hacking is also known as advantage of a badly configured security penetration testing, intrusion testing and policy; it could be implemented remotely red teaming. or internally. The techniques and methods used are likely to vary An ethical hacker is sometimes called a depending on the target and they should white hat, a term that comes from old be chosen appropriately having assessed Western movies, where the "good guy" the situation fully. The attack types and wore a white hat and the "bad guy" wore vulnerabilities discussed in this module a black hat. are: One of the first examples of ethical hackers at work was in the 1970s, when Buffer Overflow attacks. the United States government used Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. groups of experts called red teams to hack Distributed Denial of Service its own computer systems. (DDoS) attacks. Misconfigurations. According to Ed Skoudis, Vice Abuse of Trust. President of Security Strategy for Brute force attacks. Predictive Systems' Global Integrity CGI and WWW services. consulting practice, ethical hacking has Back doors and Trojans. continued to grow in an otherwise lackluster IT industry, and is becoming
- 2. Types of Hacking: Website Hacking Email Hacking Network Hacking Password Hacking Online banking Hacking Computer Hacking Advantages and disadvantages of hacking: Advantages- -Can be used to recover lost information where the computer password has been lost. -Teaches u that no technology is 100% secure -None really Disadvantages- -Criminals can use it to their advantage. -It can harm someone's privacy -Its illegal