Also Called – Attack & Penetration Testing, White-hat hacking…. Ethical Hacking How much do Ethical Hackers get Paid? In the United States, an ethical hacker can make upwards of $120,000 per annum.
Source: CERT-India January - 2005 Defacement Statistics for Indian Websites June 01, 2004 to Dec.31, 2004 Domains No of Defacements .com 922 .gov.in 24 .org 53 .net 39 .biz 12 .co.in 48 .ac.in 13 .info 3 .nic.in 2 .edu 2 other 13 Total 1131
Source: CERT/CC Total Number of Hacking Incidents Graph upto fiscal year 2003
Hackers Black Hats White Hats Gray Hats
Preparation
Footprinting
Enumeration & Fingerprinting
Identification of Vulnerabilities
Attacking
Identification of Targets – company websites, mail servers, extranets, etc.
Signing of Contract
Agreement on protection against any legal issues
Time window for Attacks
Total time for the testing
Prior Knowledge of the systems
Key people who are made aware of the testing
Collecting as much information about the target
DNS Servers
IP Ranges
Administrative Contacts
Information Sources
Search engines
Forums
Databases – whois, ripe, etc...
Tools – PING, whois, Traceroute, etc...
Specific targets determined
Identification of Services / open ports
Operating System Enumeration
Methods
Banner grabbing
Responses to various protocol like TCP
Port / Service Scans – TCP Connect, TCP SYN, etc...
Tools
Telnet, Angry IP Scanner, Nmap…
Insecure Configuration
Weak passwords
Possible Vulnerabilities in Services, Operating Systems
Insecure programming
Weak Access Control
Obtain as much information (trophies) from the Target Asset
Gaining Normal Access
Obtaining access to other connected systems
Application Specific Attacks
Gaining access to application Databases
SQL Injection
Spamming
Methodology
Proof for Exploits - Trophies
Practical Security solutions
Course Material
www.eccouncil.org ISBN 0-9729362-1-1
http://www.hackerhighschool.org/
Working Ethically
Trustworthiness
No misuse for personal gain
Hacking is not a crime when it is done under set of rules…
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