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    Ethical Hacking: Amrita Singh Swati Raina

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    Ethical hacking involves legally testing a system's security vulnerabilities to assess risk, often through penetration testing. It requires the same skills as illegal hacking but is done with permission and without malicious intent. Ethical hackers, also called white hats, use hacking techniques to find weaknesses before black hats or criminals can exploit them. The history of hacking dates back to the 1960s, and both legal and illegal hacking have evolved alongside increasing computer use and connectivity. Preventing hacking requires multilayered defenses like antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection, and content filtering, as well as security skills and knowledge of networking, operating systems, protocols, and project management.

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    Ethical hacking involves legally testing a system's security vulnerabilities to assess risk, often through penetration testing. It requires the same skills as illegal hacking but is done with permission and without malicious intent. Ethical hackers, also called white hats, use hacking techniques to find weaknesses before black hats or criminals can exploit them. The history of hacking dates back to the 1960s, and both legal and illegal hacking have evolved alongside increasing computer use and connectivity. Preventing hacking requires multilayered defenses like antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection, and content filtering, as well as security skills and knowledge of networking, operating systems, protocols, and project management.

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    Ethical hacking involves legally testing a system's security vulnerabilities to assess risk, often through penetration testing. It requires the same skills as illegal hacking but is done with permission and without malicious intent. Ethical hackers, also called white hats, use hacking techniques to find weaknesses before black hats or criminals can exploit them. The history of hacking dates back to the 1960s, and both legal and illegal hacking have evolved alongside increasing computer use and connectivity. Preventing hacking requires multilayered defenses like antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection, and content filtering, as well as security skills and knowledge of networking, operating systems, protocols, and project management.

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    Ethical Hacking: Amrita Singh Swati Raina

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    Ethical hacking involves legally testing a system's security vulnerabilities to assess risk, often through penetration testing. It requires the same skills as illegal hacking but is done with permission and without malicious intent. Ethical hackers, also called white hats, use hacking techniques to find weaknesses before black hats or criminals can exploit them. The history of hacking dates back to the 1960s, and both legal and illegal hacking have evolved alongside increasing computer use and connectivity. Preventing hacking requires multilayered defenses like antivirus software, firewalls, intrusion detection, and content filtering, as well as security skills and knowledge of networking, operating systems, protocols, and project management.

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    Ethical Hacking

    Amrita singh Swati raina

    AGENDA
    What is Ethical Hacking?

    Who are ethical hackers?


    History of hacking

    Types of hackers
    Ways to hack a system Preventing hacking Skills of an ethical hacker

    Ethical Hacking
    Ethical hacking is the process of hacking

    the information that is considered to be confidential. The ethical hacking process is also known as the intrusion testing, penetration testing or red teaming. The greatest risk I.T. faces is security.

    What is ethical hacking?


    It is legal

    Permission is obtained from the target


    Part of an overall security system Ethical hackers posses same skills, mindset and

    tools of a hacker but the attacks are done in a non destructive manner.

    Who is hacker?
    Hackers intelligent computer professionals

    learned and acquired knowledge of advanced operating techniques. Try to gain knowledge in depth of systems /networks. Hackers do not always intend to damage data. They may share their knowledge with others.

    History of hacking
    The term hack was first used by US university

    staff in mid-1960s . When eBay was first attacked in February 2000 its server was bombarded with fake request for web pages & overloaded the site. A group of teenagers once hacked into AOL and stole credit cards to buy video games. In 1986, after many more break-ins congress passed computer fraud and abuse act.

    History of hacking
    In 1989,german hackers arrested for breaking

    into US computer ; sold the information to Soviet KGB. In 1998, teenager hacks into bell Atlantic phone system; disabled communication at airports disables runway lights. 2000, viruses named I LOVE YOU & LOVE BUG damaged roughly up to 10 billions of computers.

    Hackers

    Black Hats

    White Hats

    Gray Hats

    Types of hackers
    White hat : use their skills & knowledge for good

    purpose .Help in finding new security vulnerabilities and applications. Black hat : engage in their activities with bad intention and perform illegal activities such as defacing websites and destroying data. Grey hat : do not categorize their work as good or bad.

    Ways To Hack a System


    VIRUSES & WORMS- they are self-replicating programs or codes fragments. They attach themselves to other programs (viruses) or machines (worms). They shut networks by flooding them. ROUGE ACCESS POINT- they are unsecured wireless access point that outsiders can easily breech. Are most often connected by well-meaning but ignorant employees.

    Ways To Hack a System


    BACK DOORS- they are loop holes in any system. With the aid of computerized searchers (bots) , hackers can probably find any weakness in network.

    TROJAN HORSES- they enter system by attaching themselves to other programs.

    Ways To Hack a System


    Denial Of Services- this attacks gives hackers a way to bring down the network without internal access. It floods the access router with bogus traffic (i.e. e-mail or TCP ,packets).

    Phreaks- they use computer to break into telecommunications network.

    Preventing Hacking
    Anti-virus: the most popular method of

    protection among personal computers. Mc Afee.com Corp.- provides antivirus software that scans hard drives for infected files. Norton Internet Security- Norton anti virus 2008 secures system from Trojans. Firewalls: used for computer networks & users using continuous online connections.

    Preventing Hacking
    Other software options- other options are

    used to protect larger networks systems. IDS- Intrusion Detection System is considered one of best protection method Content Filtering Software- advanced antivirus software that reads compressed files .Allows IT mangers get filtering to block threatening e-mail. Sand Boxing-helps to read malicious codes.

    Skills of an ethical hacker


    Routers- knowledge of routers, routing

    protocols and access control lists. Microsoft- skills in operation , configuration and management. Linux- knowledge of Linux/Unix; security setting, configuration, and services. Firewalls- configuration, & operation of intrusion detection systems.

    Skills of an ethical hacker


    Network protocols- TCP/IP ; how they

    function and can be manipulated. Project management- knowledge of leading, planning, organizing, and controlling a penetration tests systems.

    Thank You

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