Ethical Hacking

PRESENTED BY: DIVYADHARSHINI
BCA 5th SEM ‘A’ SEC
VVFGC,TUMKUR

 What is Ethical hacking
 Who are Ethical hackers
 Famous hackers
 Hacker & Ethical hackers
 Types of hackers
 What does an Ethical Hackers do
 Skills of Ethical Hackers
 Advantages and disadvantages
 Future Enhancements
 Security &Counter Measures
 Interference

 Ethical Hackers but not Criminal Hackers.
 Completely trustworthy.
 Strong programming and computer networking skills.
 Learn about the system and trying to find its
weaknesses.
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 Techniques of criminal hackers is Detection –
Prevention.
 Published research papers or released security
software.
 Ethical Hackers possesses same skills, mindset and
tools of a hacker but the attacks are done in a non-
destructive manner.
 E.G. Cyber Crime Investigators.
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Kevinmitnick Jonathan James Gary McKinnon Kevin Poulsen

Hackers:
 Some one who maliciously breaks into system for
personal gain. Technically these criminals are known
as crackers.
 Access the computer system or network without
authorization.
 Breaks the law.
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Ethical Hackers:
 Performs most of the same activities with its owner’s
permission.
 Employed by companies to perform penetration tests.
 Independent computer security professionals
breaking onto the computer systems legally.
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 These are good & Ethical
hackers.
 They Don’t use their skill for
illegal purpose.
 Have genuine license to hack.
 Have registered police records.
 Generally, owned by companies
for security designing.
 Generally, these are coders, have
high pay scales
TYPES OF HACKERS

 Very dangerous persons, use
their skills for personal gain.
 Always have motive to earn huge
profit.
 Highly paid persons evolve
themselves mostly in criminal
activities.
 They hack banks, steal credit
cards, & deface websites.
 These could be coders as well as
admins.
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 Also known as Red Hats.
 Combine of White Hat + Black
Hat hackers .
 Generally these are admins.
 Have little high pay than White
Hats.
 Generally not so dangerous, but
sometimes could be.
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 An Ethical Hacker is a person doing ethical hacking
that he is a security personal who tries to penetrate in
to a network to find if there is a vulnerability in the
system. An ethical hacker will always have
permission to enter into the target network.
 If they succeed in penetrating into the system then he
will report to the company with a detailed report
about the particular vulnerability exploiting which he
got in to the system.
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 Microsoft
 Linux
 Firewalls
 Routers
 Network protocols
 Project management
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 Ethical hacking nowadays is a backbone of network
security. The major pros & cons of ethical hacking:
 Advantages:-
 Help in closing the open holes in the network.
 Provides security to banking and financial establishments.
 Prevents website defacements
 Disadvantages:-
 All depends upon trustworthy of Ethical Hacker.
 Hiring professionals is expensive.
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• As it an evolving the branch of the scope of enhancement in
technology is immense. No ethical hacker can ensure the same
security by using the same technique repeatedly.
• He would have to improve develop & explore new avenues
repeatedly.
• More enhanced software's should be used for optimum
protection. Tools need to updated regularly &more efficient
ones need to be developed.
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 Use of antivirus.
 Proper logout after use of email
id.
 Manual opening browser.
 Don’t open spam.
 Password protected admin
account.
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 Keep your password protected and password should be
with characters, digits and special symbols. Do not
respond to fake on fishing email. When you are doing
any online transaction always keep watch on site
whether the protocol of site is https & whether there is
a lock symbol and evaluate the security levels.
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