Ethical Hacking

Ethical hacker is a computer network & Security  expert who attacks a security system on behalf of its owners or authorized person , seeking vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. To test the security system, ethical hackers use the same methods , but report problems instead of taking advantage of them. Ethical hacking is also known as intrusion testing and penetration testing. ethical hacker is sometimes called a white hat hacker or security professional.

Types of Hackers:

Hackers mainly classified into three types:

White hat hackers – White hat hackers are the ones who do not use their skills for harming others or for illegal purposes. These are often called security professional and are considered as good guys.

Black hat hackers – Black hat hackers often called as Crackers are the ones who use their skills for misuse or illegal purposes such as Credit card stealing, Hacking a bank or social hacking etc.

Grey hat hackers – Grey hat hackers are between White hat hackers and black hat hackers.They some times act as white hat and some times black hat.

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Essential Terminology:

Threat – An action or event that might break security. A threat is a potential violation of security.

Vulnerability – Existence of a weakness, design, or implementation error that can lead to an unexpected, undesirable event compromising the security of the system.

Target of Evaluation – An IT system, product, or component that is identified/subjected as requiring security evaluation.

Attack – An assault on system security that derives from an intelligent threat. An attack is any action or event that attempts to or violates security.

Exploit – A defined way to breach the security of an IT system through vulnerability.

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