Ethical Hacking Basic Terms











Ethical hacking
"Ethical Hacking" when I heard this word for the 1st time I completely ignored the word "Ethical" and focused on "Hacking".  So, almost all are very interested to know about hacking or I can say password cracking.
So what is Ethical Hacking anyway?

In a general term, I would like to call ethical hacking a process in which a person gets paid for messing up with your stuff online or offline.

wait! wait! we do have a definition for it also!
"It is a process of checking and testing the organization network for the possible loopholes and vulnerabilities. The individuals or experts(of course they are.) who perform ethical hacking are called white hats.They perform hacking in ethical ways without causing any damage to the computer system thereby increasing the security perimeter of an organization."




Hackers !

Most of the individuals think that a hacker is a person who actually knows a lot of coding and decodes every password, but no! it's not completely true.

"They are those intelligent individuals who spend plenty of time exploring various information systems like computers, networks, websites, software applications and mobile applications etc. with the help of hacking knowledge to find out the weakness in their security controls".



Types of Hackers 

When I first time attended a seminar on ethical hacking our resource person asked a question that how many types of hackers are there? I being very confident gave an answer saying, "Sir! there are two types of hackers good and bad". For a general view, you can consider a hacker in three categories White Hat, Black Hat, and Grey hat hackers.This is what most of the people also think but you will be more amazed to know that there are many types of hackers. which are:




1. Black Hat Hackers.

Black Hat hackers are those individuals who only are into hacking to steal information to benefit themselves. They are the people who actually got hackers society famous and also built a bad reputation for hackers as a profession 
"A black hat hacker is an individual with extensive computer knowledge whose purpose is to breach or bypass internet security."



2. White Hat Hackers.





"White hat hackers are usually seen as hackers who use their skills to benefit society".





They may be reformed black hat hackers or they may simply be well-versed in the methods and techniques used by hackers. An organization can hire these consultants to do tests and implement best practices that make them less vulnerable to malicious hacking attempts in the future.
For the most part, the term is synonymous with "ethical hacker."







3. Gray Hat Hackers.(black + white)






The term "grey hat" (me) refers to a computer hacker or computer security expert who may sometimes violate laws or typical ethical standards but does not have the malicious intent typical of a black hat hacker. The term was derived from the concepts of "white hat" and "black hat" hackers.





4. Hacktivist.
Individuals who aim to bring down critical infrastructure for a cause and are not worried about facing jail terms or any kind of punishments



5. Cyber Terrorist.

Individuals with a wide range of skills, motivated by religious or political beliefs to create fear by large-scale destruction-disruption of computer networks.



6. Govt. Sponsered Hackers.

Individuals employed by the governments to penetrate and gain top secret information and to damage info, systems or other Govts.



More about Ethical Hacking will be in my next Post 
here "Ethical hacking general steps".

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Managing Output with Manipulators in C++

Well, when I started studying C++ or you can say when I was forced to study CPP I was like already I have Maths, Physics and Chemistry to study so why this shitty extra burden on my shoulders. But that subject which I was forced to study or having no other option instead of studying CPP became my passion now. Anyways that's a hell of a story! So, this piece of reading will give you an explanation about what are manipulators and how they are implemented in CPP. Manipulators By the name you might have already thought that this is going to be something related to manipulation of something. Well, you are on a right track So, you already got an idea what it is about I would like to make it clear that what is that "something". That something is nothing but Input and Output operations. Well, in this post we will be focusing mainly on Managing Output with Manipulators. Lets, start the boring thing! The header file iomanip provides a set of functions call
Read more

What is sniffing?

Image
Wiretapping is a process of monitoring the telephone and internet conversations by a third party attackers connect a hardware or software or combination of both to the switch carrying information between two phones or hosts on the internet. Types of wire taping 1. Active wire taping : It only monitors, records the traffic (silently) and also alters the traffic. 2. Passive wire taping : It only monitors and records the traffic. Sniffing attacks are vulnerable to following protocols. 1. Telnet 2. FTP 3.SMTP 4. HTTP 5. POP3 6. NTP 7. IMAP 8. SNMP 9. RDP In network sniffing attacks are mostly done on data link layer and network layer of OSI reference model based switches Recommended sniffing tool is Wireshark.  Wireshark is available for both windows and Linux , it is the best tool for sniffing and it's absolutely free . You can download Wireshark from their official site  Wireshark download . Session Hijack
Read more

Creating a bootable USB.

A lot of people just asks me how to create a bootable USB easily. The funny part is that they mainly ask how to make it for Linux, I mean bro, if you don't know even how to make a bootable USB then you better should stick with windows OS, because it suits you better, but for the people who are reading this article for creating bootable USB, guys, first of all, I will tell you the simplest method. Don’t expect from me to explain to you how to make it using the command prompt. So, all you need is one software of 1 MB, your ISO file, a computer and yeah USB. So, just download the software Rufus from their official site(first link after typing Rufus on Google). Then make sure your ISO image file is downloaded. Now run the Rufus.exe file and then select the USB disk, from the first 'disk' option then in the bottom right of the application there will be a mall option.  Looking like a CD mounted on HDD. Click on that and select the ISO image file. A
Read more