Introduction to Ethical Hacking !

 

Hello Guys !!! 

Myself Rahul, a self training ethical hacker.

What Does Hacking Mean?

Hacking is the catch-all term for any type of misuse of a computer to break the security of another computing system to steal data, corrupt systems or files, commandeer the environment or disrupt data-related activities in any way.

Common Things 

Hacking can be carried out in many ways. The most common form is the phishing scam, where hackers attempt to gain login names and passwords, or introduce malware into networked computing environments, by tricking users into opening an email attachment or forwarding private information.

Some of the most serious breaches of recent years, including the Wannacry malware attack, began as phishing scams, affecting not just the target enterprise but associated partners, customers, government agencies and others.

Less common but still as dangerous is the simple code break. Software is readily available in underground sharing sites (aka, the Dark Web) that allows users to surreptitiously bombard firewalls and other security systems with alphanumeric strings until they get a hit. Once inside, they can do untold amounts of damage because most security systems do not oversee internal infrastructure.

Still another approach is the Denial of Service (DOS) attack, in which one computer attempts to launch multiple data requests at a given web site or enterprise network hoping to overload resources to take the environment off-line.

Even more serious is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, in which multiple computers (some hacked, some not) from around the world are trained on a single target.