Final report ethical hacking
- 1. ABSTRACT The internet has considerably enhanced various business critical operations of company’s indifferent industry sectors across the globe. However, as more and more organizations become partially or completely dependent on the internet, computer security and the serious threat of computer criminals comes to the foreground. The explosive growth of the Internet has brought many good things: electronic commerce, easy access to vast stores of reference material, collaborative computing, e-mail, and new avenues for advertising and information distribution, to name a few. As with most technological advances, there is also a dark side: criminal hackers. Governments, companies, and private citizens around the world are anxious to be a part of this revolution, but they are afraid that some hacker will break into their Web server and replace their logo with pornography, read their e-mail, steal their credit card number from an on-line shopping site, or implant software that will secretly transmit their organization’s secrets to the open Internet. With these concerns and others, the ethical hacker can help. Unfortunately, most organizations across the globe continue to remain oblivious of the threat Posed by computer criminals, corporate espionage and cyber terrorism. Ethical Hacking Attempts to pro-actively increase security protection by identifying and patching known security Vulnerabilities on systems owned by other parties. Page.1