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    Ethical Hacking
    Ethical Hacking
    Ethical Hacking
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    Ethical Hacking

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    This guide is about the most common thing that all the computer systems and IT software and data storing companies face, which is the threat of being hacked. It will brief you about the difference between hacking and ethical hacking. Things that are needed to be kept in mind while approaching to hack a system and the tools required are mentioned in the different chapters here. There are many threats to the data that are stored through an online platform and that is why the concept of ethical hackers is very common nowadays because these are the heroes of the IT world that help the companies and different users for safeguarding their work and data. Ethical hacking is a very interesting concept that still many people don't understand even when there is an ever-growing demand of these gentlemen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntroBooks
    Release dateApr 28, 2020
    ISBN9781393919100

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      Ethical Hacking - IntroBooks Team

      Ethical Hacking

      IntroBooks #646

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      Copyright © 2019 IntroBooks

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      Preface

      This guide is about the most common thing that all the computer systems and IT software and data storing companies face, which is the threat of being hacked. It will brief you about the difference between hacking and ethical hacking. Things that are needed to be kept in mind while approaching to hack a system and the tools required are mentioned in the different chapters here. There are many threats to the data that are stored through an online platform and that is why the concept of ethical hackers is very common nowadays because these are the heroes of the IT world that help the companies and different users for safeguarding their work and data. Ethical hacking is a very interesting concept that still many people don’t understand even when there is an ever-growing demand of these gentlemen.

      Summary

      There are two types of people who try to hack into IT things, and they are the bad-guy hackers and the good-guy hackers who are also evidently known as ethical hackers. Both the hackers can be equally good at their skills and can use the same methods and tools to breach a system, the only difference will be, the bad-guy hacker will be committing a criminal offense, hence treason for the bad guy-hacker and at the same time, the good-guy hacker will be ethically hacking the systems and testing their vulnerabilities and hence will receive money and trust as a reward. Ethical hacking means hacking or breaking into the system deliberately with full knowledge and consent of the owner of the system to conduct a test on the vulnerabilities of the system and determine what countermeasures are needed to make the system safer from any hacking attack.

      There are certain rules and

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