Ethical Hacking - Know the What, Why and How with Texceed

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Ethical Hacking What, Why How?

• What is Ethical Hacking?
• Hacking is a word with a negative connotation.
  It is used to describe a computer user who has
  malicious intentions and wants to hack or break
  into the computer systems to do all possible
  wrong things. This includes stealing valuable
  data, erasing or modifying the data, taking
  down/shutting down a working website or software,
  disrupt services, and so on. And obviously, this
  person uses all the cunning tricks to get entry
  into the system by cracking the passwords or by
  circumventing different authorization systems.
  When you hear the term Ethical Hacking you may
  ask a question that What is Ethical about
  Hacking?

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• Ethical Hacking
• No doubt, Hacking is a process of breaking into
  computer systems. However, this can be done with
  a noble purpose. We watching good police officers
  go two steps ahead of the thieves by thinking
  like them. Ethical hacking is like that Thinking
  and Acting like a hacker. But, not to harm
  anybody or with malicious intent. Someone who is
  certified in this trade is called a Certified
  Ethical Hacker.
• Ethical hacking is an authorized and legal
  practice of using all the tools and tricks to
  find vulnerabilities or weak spots in the
  devices, systems, servers, networks, etc. Finding
  out these weak spots is called penetration
  testing. Security engineers do this acting like a
  good cop.

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• Security engineers find out all the weak spots
  before any hacker can exploit them and penetrate
  into the system. In this way, they strengthen the
  defense. They use different tools to attack their
  own systems, collect data and analyze it. Come up
  with strategies to plug any holes and improve the
  security further. And this is the reason why
  there is a lot of demand for security engineers
  or ethical hackers.
• Securing an information system is not one time
  task. If this is like a web application hosted
  and available on the internet, the chances of it
  being attacked are far more.  Hackers with
  malicious intentions can perform many different
  types of attacks.

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• Common Types of Security Attacks
• Phishing is one very common type of attack. Here,
  some fraudulent communication is sent to the
  user, maybe on an email. The user believes it as
  if it is coming from a reputed source. He/She
  ends up clicking a link or filling out a form
  with information. With such an attack, critical
  financial information like login, password, and
  credit card details is gone or it can be used to
  install malware into your system.

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• Injection attacks, as the name suggests, try to
  inject something into the system to gain control.
  A popular example is the SQL injection attack. As
  you know, all the valuable customer data is
  stored in the databases, getting access to it
  would be fascinating for a hacker.
• Beyond these, there are many like Denial of
  Service attacks, Viruses, Worms, malware,
  brute-force, and ransomware, and so on. And they
  would keep on increasing, however, security
  engineers are trained to look at such attacks and
  take appropriate measures to secure the systems.
  What they do is Ethical hacking. And if you are
  trying to become one, look for Ethical Hacking
  Course Online.

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• Need of Ethical Hacking
• A BSE-listed company that recently held its board
  meeting in South Mumbai roped in investigators to
  sweep the conference room for bugs ahead of their
  meeting. And Voila! Investigators found identical
  bugsvideo and audio malware embedded deep
  inside two cell phones and a tablet of three
  different executives.
• India Inc more vulnerable due to pandemic
  cyber-attacks jumped 10X in the last two years
   Economics Times

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• This is the recent news from Economic Times. As
  work from home culture spreads and our life
  becomes more and more digital, these treats are
  bound to increase. Invent a new technology for
  doing something good and you will find some
  people who would use it for destruction. Till
  this battle between good and evil continues, the
  war-front will need more learned soldiers in the
  form of security engineers.
• Welcome to such a challenging and rewarding
  career. You can start learning on your own or
  join the Ethical Hacking course in Pune at
  Texceed Technologies and fast-forward your
  career.

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• Conclusion
• Know the What, Why and How about Ethical Hacking.
  It is sometimes also known as penetration testing
  or pen-testing.

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