This document is the abstract section of a student thesis on hacking. It provides an overview of the topics that will be discussed in the thesis, including the different phases of hacking (reconnaissance, scanning, gaining access, etc.), types of hackers (white hat, black hat, script kiddies), types of hacking attacks, and purposes and advantages/disadvantages of hacking. The abstract concludes by stating that the thesis will examine these topics in detail over several chapters and will discuss conclusions and the future scope of hacking.

1. HACKING
BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
in
COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
By
G.VENKATA SAI (1011602903)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Y.S.R ENGINEERING COLLEGE
OF YOGIVEMANA UNIVERSITY
PRODDATUR-516360, Y.S.R (DT.), A.P.
EXTERNAL EXAMINER INTERNAL EXAMINAR

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ABSTRACT
Hacking" is the word that shakes everyone whenever it is said or heard by someone.During
the development of the Internet, computer security has become a major concern for
businesses and governments. They want to be able to take advantage of the Internet for
electronic commerce, advertising, information distribution and access, and other pursuits, but
they are worried about the possibility of being "hacked."These rules include knowledge of
HTML, JavaScript’s, Computer Tricks, Cracking & Breaking etc.etc.
This method of evaluating the security of a system has been in use from the early days of
computers. In one early ethical hack, the United States Air Force conducted a "security
evaluation" of the Multics operating systems for "potential use as a two-level (secret/top
secret) system." Their evaluation found that while Multics was "significantly better than other
conventional systems," it also had”.
Vulnerabilities in hardware security, software security, and procedural security" that could be
uncovered with "a relatively low level of effort."A Hacker doesn't need a software to hack.
There are many rules that he should learn to become an Ethical Hacker.

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INDEX
CHAPTER-I
1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER-II
2. PHASES OF HACKING
CHAPTER-III
3. HACKING TOOLS
CHAPTER-IV
4. TYPES OF HACKERS
CHAPTER-V
5. TYPES OF HACKING
CHAPER-VI
6. TYPES OF ATTACKS
CHAPTER-VII
7. PURPOSE OF HACKING
CHAPTER-VII
8. ADVANTAGES & DISADVANTAGES
CONCLUSIION
FUTURE SCOPE

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1. INTRODUCTION
Hacking has been a part of computing for almost five decades and it is a very broad
discipline, which covers a wide range of topics.
The first known event of hacking had taken place in 1960 at MIT and at the same time, the
term "Hacker" was originated.
Hacking is the act of finding the possible entry points that exist in a computer system or a
computer network and finally entering into them.
Hacking is usually done to gain unauthorized access to a computer system or a computer
network, either to harm the systems or to steal sensitive information available on the
computer.
Hacking is usually legal as long as it is being done to find weaknesses in a computer System
for testing purpose. This sort of hacking is what we call Ethical Hacking.
Jonathan James was an American hacker, illfamous as the first juvenile sent to prison for
cybercrime in United States. He committed suicide in 2008 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
In 1999, at the age of 16, he gained access to several computers by breaking the password of
a server that belonged to NASA and stole the source code of the International Space Station
among other sensitive information.

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2. PHASES OF HACKING
1. Reconnaissance:
This is the first step of Hacking. It is also called as Footprinting and information
gathering Phase. This is the preparatory phase where we collect as much information
as possible about the target. We usually collect information about three groups,
1) Network
2) Host
3) People involved
There are two types of Footprinting:
 Active: Directly interacting with the target to gather information about the target. Eg
Using Nmap tool to scan the target
 Passive: Trying to collect the information about the target without directly accessing
the target. This involves collecting information from social media, public websites
etc.
2. Scanning:
Three types of scanning are involved:
 Port scanning: This phase involves scanning the target for the information like open
ports, Live systems, various services running on the host.
 Vulnerability Scanning: Checking the target for weaknesses or vulnerabilities which
can be exploited. Usually done with help of automated tools
 Network Mapping: Finding the topology of network, routers, firewalls servers if any,
and host information and drawing a network diagram with the available information.
This map may serve as a valuable piece of information throughout the haking process.
3. Gaining Access:
This phase is where an attacker breaks into the system/network using various tools or
methods.
After entering into a system, he has to increase his privilege to administrator level so he can
install an application he needs or modify data or hide data.

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4. Maintaining Access:
Hacker may just hack the system to show it was vulnerable or he can be so mischievous that
he wants to maintain or persist the connection in the background without the knowledge of
the user.
This can be done using Trojans, Rootkits or other malicious files. The aim is to maintain the
access to the target until he finishes the tasks he planned to accomplish in that target.
5. Clearing Track:
No thief wants to get caught. An intelligent hacker always clears all evidence so that in the
later point of time, no one will find any traces leading to him.
This involves modifying/corrupting/deleting the values of Logs, modifying registry values
and uninstalling all applications he used and deleting all folders he created.
Protect yourself: What and what not to do?
 Do not post information on social media that can be related to challenge questions
 Use passwords that cannot be broken by brute force or guessing.
 Consider 2 factor authentication when possible

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2. HACKING TOOL’S
NMAP
Nmap stands for Network Mapper. It is an open source tool that is used widely for network
discovery and security auditing. Nmap was originally designed to scan large networks, but it
can work equally well for single hosts. Network administrators also find it useful for tasks
such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or
service uptime.
Nmap uses raw IP packets to determine −
 what hosts are available on the network,
 what services those hosts are offering,
 what operating systems they are running on,
 what type of firewalls are in use, and other such characteristics.
Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X, and
Linux.
Metasploit
Metasploit is one of the most powerful exploit tools. It’s a product of Rapid7 and most of its
resources can be found at: www.metasploit.com. It comes in two versions
− commercial and free edition. Matasploit can be used with command prompt or with Web
UI.
With Metasploit, you can perform the following operations −
 Conduct basic penetration tests on small networks
 Run spot checks on the exploitability of vulnerabilities
 Discover the network or import scan data
 Browse exploit modules and run individual exploits on hosts
Burp Suit
Burp Suite is a popular platform that is widely used for performing security testing of web
applications. It has various tools that work in collaboration to support the entire testing
process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application's attack surface, through to
finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Burp is easy to use and provides the administrators full control to combine advanced manual
techniques with automation for efficient testing. Burp can be easily configured and it
contains features to assist even the most experienced testers with their work.

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Angry IPScanner
Angry IP scanner is a lightweight, cross-platform IP address and port scanner. It can scan IP
addresses in any range. It can be freely copied and used anywhere. In order to increase the
scanning speed, it uses multithreaded approach, wherein a separate scanning thread is
created for each scanned IP address.
Angry IP Scanner simply pings each IP address to check if it’s alive, and then, it resolves its
hostname, determines the MAC address, scans ports, etc. The amount of gathered data about
each host can be saved to TXT, XML, CSV, or IP-Port list files. With help of plugins,
Angry IP Scanner can gather any information about scanned IPs.
Cain&Abel
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It helps in easy
recovery of various kinds of passwords by employing any of the following methods −
 sniffing the network,
 cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis
attacks,
 recording VoIP conversations,
 decoding scrambled passwords,
 recovering wireless network keys,
 revealing password boxes,
 uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
Cain & Abel is a useful tool for security consultants, professional penetration testers and
everyone else who plans to use it for ethical reasons.
Ettercap
Ettercap stands for Ethernet Capture. It is a network security tool for Man-in-the-Middle
attacks. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other
interesting tricks. Ettercap has inbuilt features for network and host analysis. It supports
active and passive dissection of many protocols.
You can run Ettercap on all the popular OS such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
EtherPeek
EtherPeek is a wonderful tool that simplifies network analysis in a multiprotocol
heterogeneous network environment. EtherPeek is a small tool (less than 2 MB) that can be
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EtherPeek proactively sniffs traffic packets on a network. By default, EtherPeek supports
protocols such as AppleTalk, IP, IP Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), NetWare, TCP,
UDP, NetBEUI, and NBT packets.
SuperScan
SuperScan is a powerful tool for network administrators to scan TCP ports and resolve
hostnames. It has a user friendly interface that you can use to −
 Perform ping scans and port scans using any IP range.
 Scan any port range from a built-in list or any given range.
 View responses from connected hosts.
 Modify the port list and port descriptions using the built in editor.
 Merge port lists to build new ones.
 Connect to any discovered open port.
 Assign a custom helper application to any port.
QualysGuard
QualysGuard is an integrated suite of tools that can be utilized to simplify security
operations and lower the cost of compliance. It delivers critical security intelligence on
demand and automates the full spectrum of auditing, compliance and protection for IT
systems and web applications.
QualysGuard includes a set of tools that can monitor, detect, and protect your global
network.
WebInspect
WebInspect is a web application security assessment tool that helps identify known and
unknown vulnerabilities within the Web application layer.
It can also help check that a Web server is configured properly, and attempts common web
attacks such as parameter injection, cross-site scripting, directory traversal, and more.
LC4
LC4 was formerly known as L0phtCrack. It is a password auditing and recovery
application. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft
Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, and hybrid attacks.
LC4 recovers Windows user account passwords to streamline migration of users to another
authentication system or to access accounts whose passwords are lost.
LAN guard Network Security Scanner
LANguard Network Scanner monitors a network by scanning connected machines and
providing information about each node. You can obtain information about each individual
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For each computer, you can list the netbios name table, current logged-on user, and Mac
address.
NetworkStumbler
Network stumbler is a WiFi scanner and monitoring tool for Windows. It allows network
professionals to detect WLANs. It is widely used by networking enthusiasts and hackers
because it helps you find non-broadcasting wireless networks.
Network Stumbler can be used to verify if a network is well configured, its signal strength or
coverage, and detect interference between one or more wireless networks. It can also be used
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4.TYPES OF HACKERS
White Hat Hackers
Meet the right guys on the dark web. White hat hackers, also known as ethical hackers are the
cybersecurity experts who help the Govt and organizations by performing penetration testing
and identifying loopholes in their cybersecurity. They even do other methodologies and
ensure protection from black hat hackers and other malicious cyber crimes.
Simply stated, these are the right people who are on your side. They will hack into your
system with the good intention of finding vulnerabilities and help you remove virus and
malware from your system.
Black Hat Hackers
Taking credit for the negative persona around "hacking," these guys are your culprits. A
black hat hacker is the type of hacker you should be worried. Heard a news about a new
cybercrime today? One of the black hat hackers may be behind it.
While their agenda may be monetary most of the time, it's not always just that. These hackers
look for vulnerabilities in individual PCs, organizations and bank systems. Using any
loopholes they may find, they can hack into your network and get access to your personal,
business and financial information.
Gray Hat Hackers
Gray hat hackers fall somewhere in between white hat and black hat hackers. While they may
not use their skills for personal gain, they can, however, have both good and bad intentions.
For instance, a hacker who hacks into an organization and finds some vulnerability may leak
it over the Internet or inform the organization about it.
It all depends upon the hacker. Nevertheless, as soon as hackers use their hacking skills for
personal gain they become black hat hackers. There is a fine line between these two. So, let
me make it simple for you.
Because a gray hat hacker doesn't use his skills for personal gain, he is not a black hat
hacker. Also, because he is not legally authorized to hack the organization's cybersecurity, he
can't be considered a white hat either.
Script Kiddies
A derogatory term often used by amateur hackers who don't care much about the coding
skills. These hackers usually download tools or use available hacking codes written by other
developers and hackers. Their primary purpose is often to impress their friends or gain
attention.
However, they don't care about learning. By using off-the-shelf codes and tools, these
hackers may launch some attacks without bothering for the quality of the attack. Most
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GreenHat Hackers
These hackers are the amateurs in the online world of hacking. Consider them script kiddies
but with a difference. These newbies have a desire to become full-blown hackers and are very
curious to learn. You may find them engrossed in the hacking communities bombarding their
fellow hackers with questions.
You can identify them by their spark to grow and learn more about the hacking trade. Once
you answer a single question, the hackers will listen with undivided attention and ask another
question until you answer all their queries.
Blue Hat Hackers
These are another form of novice hackers much like script kiddies whose main agenda is to
take revenge on anyone who makes them angry.
They have no desire for learning and may use simple cyber attacks like flooding your IP with
overloaded packets which will result in DoS attacks.Script kiddie with a vengeful agenda can
be considered a blue hat hacker.
Red Hat Hackers
Red Hat Hackers have an agenda similar to white hat hackers which in simple words is
halting the acts of Blackhat hackers. However, there is a major difference in the way they
operate. They are ruthless when it comes to dealing with black hat hackers.
Instead of reporting a malicious attack, they believe in taking down the black hat hacker
completely. Red hat hacker will launch a series of aggressive cyber attacks and malware on
the hacker that the hacker may as well have to replace the whole system.
State/NationSponsoredHackers
State or Nation sponsored hackers are those who have been employed by their state or
nation's government to snoop in and penetrate through full security to gain confidential
information from other governments to stay at the top online.
They have an endless budget and extremely advanced tools at their disposal to target
individuals, companies or rival nations.
Hacktivist
If you've ever come across social activists propagandizing a social, political or religious
agenda, then you might as well meet hacktivist, the online version of an activist.
Hacktivist is a hacker or a group of anonymous hackers who think they can bring about social
changes and often hack government and organizations to gain attention or share their
displeasure over opposing their line of thought.
Malicious Insider or Whistleblower
A malicious insider or a whistleblower may be an employee with a grudge or a strategic
employee compromised or hired by rivals to garner trade secrets of their opponents to stay on
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5.TYPES OF HACKING
Website Hacking
Hacking a website means taking unauthorized control over a web server and its associated
software such as databases and other interface
Tools:-Burp suite,John the Ripper,Metasploit etc..
Network Hacking
Hacking a network means gathering information about a network by using tools like
Nmap,Telnet, NS lookup, Ping, Tracert, Netstat, etc. with the intent to harm the network
system and hamper its operation.
EX:-Bio-metric devices, etc.
Email Hacking
It includesgettingunauthorizedaccessonanEmail account and usingitwithouttakingthe consent
of itsowner.
Tools:-Hydra,Crunch etc..
Ethical Hacking
Ethical hacking involves finding weaknesses in a computer or network system for testing
purpose and finally getting them fixed.
Password Hacking
This is the process of recovering secret passwords from data that has been stored in or
transmitted by a computer system.
Tools:-Aircrack-ng,Rever,wireshark ete..
Computer Hacking
This is the process of stealing computer ID and password by applying hacking methods and
getting unauthorized access to a computer system.

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6.TYPES OF ATTACKS
Dictionary attack.
Phishing attack.
Brut force attack.
Password attack.
Keyloggers.
Virus, Trojan etc.
Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack.
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
SQL injection attack.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
DICTIONARY ATTACK
Dictionary attack attempts to defeat an authentication mechanism by systematically entering
each word in a dictionary as a password or trying to determine the decryption key of an
encrypted message or document.
Dictionary attacks are often successful because many users and businesses use ordinary
words as passwords.
BRUTE FORCE ATTACK
In a brute-force attack, the hacker uses all possible combinations of letters, numbers, special
characters, and small and capital letters to break the password.
This type of attack has a high probability of success, but it requires an enormous amount of
time to process all the combinations.
A brute-force attack is slow and the hacker might require a system with high processing
power to perform all those permutations and combinations faster.
KEYLOGGERS
Keylogger is a simple software that records the key sequence and strokes of your keyboard
into a log file on your machine. These log files might even contain your personal email IDs
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Keylogger is one of the main reasons why online banking sites give you an option to use their
virtual keyboards. So, whenever you’re operating a computer in public setting, try to take
extra caution
Keylogger is a simple software that records the key sequence and strokes of your keyboard
into a log file on your machine.
These log files might even contain your personal email IDs and passwords. Also known as
keyboard capturing, it can be either software or hardware.
While software-based keyloggers target the programs installed on a computer, hardware
devices target keyboards, electromagnetic emissions, smartphone sensors, etc.
Keylogger is one of the main reasons why online banking sites give you an option to use their
virtual keyboards. So, whenever you’re operating a computer in public setting, try to take
extra caution.
KeySweeper :-Fake USB Charger That Records Everything You Type
PHISHING
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login
credentials and credit card numbers.
The most common type of phishing scam, deceptive phishing refers to any attack by which
fraudsters impersonate a legitimate company and attempt to steal people's personal
information or login credentials.
Denial of Service (DoSDDoS)
A Denial of Service attack is a hacking technique to take down a site or server by flooding
that site or server with a lot of traffic that the server is unable to process all the requests in the
real time and finally crashes down.
This popular technique, the attacker floods the targeted machine with tons of requests to
overwhelm the resources, which, in turn, restrict the actual requests from being fulfilled.
For DDoS attacks, hackers often deploy botnets or zombie computers which have got the
only work to flood your system with request packets.
With each passing year, as the malware and types of hackers keep getting advanced, the size
of DDoS attacks keeps getting increasing.

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RANSOMWARE
Ransomware is a type of malware that can alter the normal operation of your machine. It
encrypts the data and prevents you from using your computer partially or wholly.
Ransomware programs also display warning messages asking for money to get your device
back to normal working condition.
FACK WAP
Evenjustfor fun,a hacker can use software tofake a wirelessaccesspoint.ThisWAPconnectsto
the official publicplace WAP.
Once you getconnectedthe fake WAP,a hackercan access yourdata, justlike inthe above case.
It’sone of the easierhacksto accomplishandone justneedsa simple software andwireless
network.
Anyone canname theirWAPas some legitname like “HeathrowAirportWiFi”or“StarbucksWiFi”
and start spyingonyou.
One of the bestwaysto protectyourself fromsuchattacksis usinga qualityVPN service.
Cookie theft
The cookies of a browser keep our personal data such as browsing history, username, and
passwords for different sites that we access.
Once the hacker gets the access to your cookie, he can even authenticate himself as you on a
browser.
A popular method to carry out this attack is to encourage a user’s IP packets to pass through
attacker’s machine.
Also known as SideJacking or Session Hijacking, this attack is easy to carry out if the user is
not using SSL (https) for the complete session.
On the websites where you enter your password and banking details, it’s of utmost
importance for them to make their connections encrypted.
Cross-site scripting (XSS)
Cross-site scripting (XSS) is a code injection attack that allows an attacker to execute
malicious JavaScript in another user's browser.

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The attacker does not directly target his victim. Instead, he exploits a vulnerability in a
website that the victim visits, in order to get the website to deliver the malicious JavaScript
for him.
To the victim's browser, the malicious JavaScript appears to be a legitimate part of the
website, and the website has thus acted as an unintentional accomplice to the attacker.
These attacks can be carried out using HTML, JavaScript, VBScript, ActiveX, Flash, but the
most used XSS is malicious JavaScript.
These attacks also can gather data from account hijacking, changing of user settings, cookie
theft/poisoning, or false advertising and create DoS attacks.
XSS attacks are often divided into three types −
Persistent XSS:-where the malicious string originates from the website's database.
Reflected XSS:-where the malicious string originates from the victim's request.
DOM-based XSS:- where the vulnerability is in the client-side code rather than the server-
side code.
SQL injection
SQL injection is a set of SQL commands that are placed in a URL string or in data structures
in order to retrieve a response that we want from the databases.
That are connected with the web applications. This type of attacks generally takes place on
webpages developed using PHP or ASP.NET.
An SQL injection attack can be done with the following intentions −
To dump the whole database of a system,
To modify the content of the databases, or
To perform different queries that are not allowed by the application.
This type of attack works when the applications don’t validate the inputs properly, before
passing them to an SQL statement.
Injections are normally placed put in address bars, search fields, or data fields.The easiest
way to detect if a web application is vulnerable to an SQL injection attack is to use the
character in a string and see if you get any error.

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7.PURPOSE OF HACKING
There could be various positive and negative intentions behind performing hacking
activities. Here is a list of some probable reasons why people indulge in hacking activities −
 Just for fun
 Show-off
 Time pass
 Steal important information
 Damaging the system
 Hampering privacy
 Money extortion
 System security testing
 To break policy compliance

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8.Advantages ofHacking
Hacking is quite useful in the following scenarios −
 To recover lost information, especially in case you lost your password.
 To perform penetration testing to strengthen computer and network security.
 To put adequate preventative measures in place to prevent security breaches.
 To have a computer system that prevents malicious hackers from gaining access.
DisadvantagesofHacking
Hacking is quite dangerous if it is done with harmful intent. It can cause :-
 Massive security breach.
 Unauthorized system access on private information.
 Privacy violation.
 Hampering system operation.
 Denial of service attacks.
 Malicious attack on the system.

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PREVENTIONS:-
 Keeping Your Accounts Secure
 >Create complex passwords.
 Keeping Your Computer Secure
 >Encrypt your hard drive
 >Install a firewall on the system.
 Avoid clicking suspicious links or responding to unknown emails.
 Install updates as soon as they become available.
 Avoid jailbreaking (or rooting) your phone or side-loading apps.
 Install antivirus software on your computer.
 Use secured wireless networks.
 Do not install software from little known sites
.
Conclusion
The word "hacker" carries weight. People strongly disagree as to what a hacker is. Hacking
may be defined as legal or illegal, ethical or unethical. The media’s portrayal of hacking has
boosted one version of discourse. The conflict between discourses is important for our
understanding of computer hacking subculture.
Also, the outcome of the conflict may prove critical in deciding whether or not our society
and institutions remain in the control of a small elite or we move towards a radical democracy
(a.k.a. socialism).
It is my hope that the hackers of the future will move beyond their limitations (through
inclusion of women, a deeper politicization, and more concern for recruitment and teaching)
and become hacktivists.
They need to work with non-technologically based and technology-borrowing social
movements (like most modern social movements who use technology to do their task more
easily) in the struggle for global justice.
Otherwise the non-technologically based social movements may face difficulty continuing to
resist as their power base is eroded while that of the new technopower elite is growing – and
the fictionesque cyberpunk-1984 world may become real.

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FEATURE SCOPE OF HACKING
A career in cyber security and ethical hacking requires a structured methodology and just like
any career, it will require some blood and sweat and time. According to one report, there is a
huge demand of cyber security professionals and it is to be growing in coming years 3.5
times faster than the demand for other technology jobs.
These reports suggest that there is an acute shortage of cyber security skills in the global
market and these number are to further grow with the enhancement in the technology.
Reports also indicated that more than 209,000 cyber security and ethical hacker jobs in US
are unfilled and these has been a sharp rise in the job postings which means the demands are
growing. Additionally, it is expected to rise to 6 million by 2019 with a shortfall of 1.5
million.
Master computer basics.
Master the basics of computer technology. Know about operating systems. Move from the
comfort zone of Windows and Mac and to the road less travelled of Linux and Unix. Get Kali
Linux and play with it.
Anyone with the Java programming knowledge should be sufficient but they could
add Python to their staple.Learn about networking, take a CCNA course that will expose you
to computer networks and security of networks. Be comfortable with routers.
Think InfoSec
Understand the value of protecting information assets. Understand core concepts of
information security specifically the triad of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. Start
attending hacking boot camps. Start with simple online courses on hacking. Take Certified
Ethical Hacker Training (CEH) from Mindmajix or CEH Training from Tekslte.
Delve into the world of hacking
Prove yourself among peers by taking practical penetration testing certification. It will earn
you a badge of honor, that you can brag about. Consider being an Offensive Security
Certified Professional
Hacking is a computer skill that can be used for good or evil. Ethical Hacking is the approach
of finding out the security loopholes.The only difference in this method is that it is done with
the permission of the concerned authorities.
In India companies like wipro ,infosys and IBM are interested in employing ethical hackers.
Moreover salaries are higher than other areas of IT.According to Nasscom, India will require
at least 77,000 ethical hackers compared to the present figure of 15,000.

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