Tuesday, 22 July 2014

WHAT IS ETHICAL-HACKING AND WHO IS ACTUALLY A ETHICAL HACKER

Hello friends here I am back with again an interesting article. This article is for those who wants to be a professional hacker one day.i know that all you want the hacking tricks but before that you must know that what is ethical hacking and who is actually a ethical hacker. Also i am gonna tell you a few their types.
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Ethical Hacking : An ethical hacker is a computer and network expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners, seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. To test a security system, ethical hackers use the same methods as their less principled counterparts, but report problems instead of taking advantage of them. Ethical hacking is also known as penetration testing, intrusion testing and red teaming. An ethical hacker
is sometimes called a white hat, a term that comes from old Western movies, where the "good guy" wore a white hat and the "bad guy" wore a black hat.
One of the first examples of ethical hackers at work was in the 1970s, when the United States government used groups of experts called red teams to hack its own computer systems. According to Ed Skoudis, Vice President of Security Strategy for Predictive Systems' Global Integrity consulting practice, ethical hacking has continued to grow in an otherwise lackluster IT industry, and is becoming increasingly common outside the government and technology sectors where it began. Many large companies, such as IBM, maintain employee teams of ethical hackers.

In a similar but distinct category, a hacktivist is more of a vigilante: detecting, sometimes reporting (and sometimes exploiting) security vulnerabilities as a form of social activism.

Mostly known Types of  hackers-
  • White hat -A white hat hacker breaks security for non-malicious reasons, perhaps to test their own security system or while working for a security company which makes security software. The term "white hat" in Internet slang refers to an ethical hacker. This classification also includes individuals who perform penetration tests and vulnerability assessments within a contractual agreement. The EC-Council,also known as the International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants, is one of those organizations that have developed certifications, courseware, classes, and online training covering the diverse arena of Ethical Hacking.

  • Black hat- A "black hat" hacker is a hacker who "violates computer security for little reason beyond maliciousness or for personal gain" (Moore, 2005). Black hat hackers form the stereotypical, illegal hacking groups often portrayed in popular culture, and are "the epitome of all that the public fears in a computer criminal".Black hat hackers break into secure networks to destroy data or make the network unusable for those who are authorized to use the network. Black hat hackers are also referred to as the "crackers" within the security industry and by modern programmers. Crackers keep the awareness of the vulnerabilities to themselves and do not notify the general public or manufacturer for patches to be applied. Individual freedom and accessibility is promoted over privacy and security. Once they have gained control over a system, they may apply patches or fixes to the system only to keep their reigning control. Richard Stallman invented the definition to express the maliciousness of a criminal hacker versus a white hat hacker who performs hacking duties to identify places to repair.

  • Grey hat- A grey hat hacker is a combination of a black hat and a white hat hacker. A grey hat hacker may surf the internet and hack into a computer system for the sole purpose of notifying the administrator that their system has a security defect, for example. They may then offer to correct the defect for a fee.
      REVIEW-
      Ethical hacking means to use your hacking skills to try to find weaknesses and security holes in a system, the results of which can be later used to fix those problems and close the security holes which will ultimately lead to a more secure and robust system. Please understand that ethical hacking doesn’t mean your usual social networking hacking and some simple hacking tricks, it is a very broad field, involving many subjects and genres.
      Learning ethical hacking can be sometimes time consuming and difficult, as the beginners may get confused and overwhelmed by the amount of information online. Many times the beginners without any proper guidance may try to directly learn advanced things without any prior knowledge of the basics and the fundamentals. I get daily queries about from where to start learning about hacking and which ebooks and sources to refer. I usually don’t answer the queries because ethical hacking is a vast subject and it is difficult to predict in which type of hacking the leaner has interest in. So I would recommend first to understand about the field of ethical hacking and decide whether you are really interested in it.
      Now to learn and get basic ideas about ethical hacking, I would suggest you to take same basic ethical hacking course. One such institution providing such course is Innobuzz. If you are an engineering student, I think you may be familiar with the name, they regularly conduct seminars and training programs in colleges. I did not attend one, some of my friends and cousin attended it. Later when I asked about it they said they where happy with innobuzz and that it was a good experience for the beginners who have no or very little idea about what ethical hacking really is.


      BE THE HACKER IT'S GOOD BUT TRY TO BE THE ETHICAL HACKER.AND BE THE WHITE HAT HACKER.......


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