13-12-2012, 06:00 PM
Ethical Hacking and Cyber Attacks
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What is Hacking
"Hacking" is the word that shakes everyone whenever it is said or heard by someone. Everyone born in this world with attitude wants to be a Hacker. But it is not a job of a new born baby or an old grown lady. A Hacker needs a brilliant mind to hack anything. His skills should be so powerful that no other hacker can hack him.
Ethical Hacker
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.
Common Attack Vectors
Email – This is the most primary attack of any intruder trying to attack a computer is through Email , where there is no authenticity about the person contacting you.
Network Attack - When an attacker decides to target a specific corporation, they can either get personal with the employees by making use of email and other similar technology, or go through the gateway.
Adequate Protection -
Most modern networks are equipped with various security solutions to prevent against the majority of common Internet attacks. These solutions usually cope quite well with the majority of opportunistic attacks such as worms and so on, but how do they cope with the determined, financially backed up hacker?