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ETHICAL HACKING

 ETHICAL HACKING

Ethical Hacking is a structured hacking performed to expose vulnerabilities in a system, using a tools and techniques with organizations knowledge. 

The act of hacking is defined as the process of finding a set of vulnerabilities in a target system and systematically exploiting them. Ethical hacking as a discipline discerns itself from hacking by adding a vital element to the process.

The process becomes a legal activity and since the hacker takes permission prior to hacking into system, it is legally made sure that he has no malicious intent. This is normally performed by making the ethical hacker sign contracts that legally bind him to work towards the improvement of the security of the company.

ETHICAL HACKER:

An Ethical hacker is a computer security specialist, who hacks into a system with the consent or permission of the owner to disclose vulnerabilities in the security of the system in order to improve it. 

Types of Hackers:

  1. White hat hackers
  2. Black hat hackers
  3. Gray hat hackers
  4. Script kiddies
  5. Green hat hackers
  6. Blue hat hackers
  7. Red hat hackers

Some of the roles of Ethical hacker:

  • Protect the privacy of the organization.
  • Reporting any sort of discrepancy in the system to the corresponding division.
  • Update Hardware and Software vendors regarding any sort of vulnerabilities found in their product.

Programming languages to be known for Ethical hacking:
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • PHP/Ruby
  • Bash
Types of Ethical hacking:
  • Web Application Hacking
  • Social engineering
  • System hacking
  • Hacking wireless networks
  • Web server Hacking.
Some of the Ethical Hacking tools:
  • NMAP
  • Netsparker
  • Burpsuite
  • Metasploit
Some of the famous Ethical Hackers in the world:
  • Kevin Mitnick
  • Tsutomu Shimomura
  • Richard Stallman
  • Çharlie Miller
  • Sherri Sparks
  • Mac Maiffret.


Tech facts:
  • India leads the world in ethical hackers ; 23% live there and US with 20%.
  • A Hacker needs only one loophole to hack any system.

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