Ethical Hacking

CONTENT
 INTRODUCTION  METHODOLOGY

 HISTORY  REPORTING

 TYPES OF HACKERS  CONCLUSION

 ETHICAL HACKING  ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
 HACKING
 CONCLUSION
 ETHICAL HACKING
COMMANDMENTS  REFERENCE

INTRODUCTION

 Ethical hacking also known as penetration testing
or White-hat hacking, involves the same tools,
tricks and techniques that hackers use, but with
one major difference that ethical hacking is legal.

 Ethical hacking can also ensure that vendors
claims about the security of their products
legitimate.

SECURITY
 Security is the condition of being protect against
danger or loss. In the general sense, security is a
concept similar to safety.
 Information security means protecting information
and information systems from unauthorized access,
use, disclosure, disruption, modification or destruc-
tion.

Need for security
There may be several forms of damages which are obviously
interrelated which are produced by the intruders.

HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS

 In one early ethical hack, the United States Air Force
conducted a “security evaluation” of the Multiuse
operating systems for “potential use as a two-level
(secret/top secret) systems.”

 Most notable of these was the work by Farmer and
Venom, which was originally posted to Usenet in
December of 1993.

HACKING

 Eric Raymond, compiler of “The New Hacker’s Dictionary”,
defines a hacker as a clever programmer.

 A “Good hack” is a clever solution to a programming
problem and “hacking” is the act of doing it.

TYPE OF HACKERS

 Black-Hat Hackers

 White-Hat Hackers

 Grey-Hat Hackers

ETHICAL HACKING

 A methodology adopted by ethical hackers to discover
the vulnerabilities existing in information systems
operating environments.

 With the growth of the internet, computer security has
become a Major concern for businesses and govern-
ments.

 Evaluate the intruder threat to their interests would be
to have independent computer security professionals
attempt to break into their computer systems.

What does an Ethical Hacker do ?

 An ethical hacker is a person doing ethical
hacking that is he is a security personal who
tries to penetrate in to a network to find if
there is some vulnerability in the system. An
ethical hacker will always have the permission
to enter into the target network.

 If he succeed in penetrating into the system
then he will report to the company with a
detailed report about the particular vulnerab-
ility exploiting which he got in to the system.

Required Skills of an Ethical Hacker :

 Microsoft :
 Linux :
 Firewalls :
 Routers :
 Network Protocols :
 Project Management :

ETHICAL HACKING COMMANDMENTS

 Working ethically

 Respecting privacy

 Not crashing your systems:

METHODOLOGY OF HACKING

Reconnaissance

Scanning & Enumeration

Gaining access

 Maintaining access

Clearing tracks

 Reconnaissance:
This literal meaning of the Word reconnaissance means a
preliminary survey to gain the information . This is also known as
foot-printing. As given in the analogy, this is the stage in which the
hacker collects information about the company which the personal
is going to hack. This is one of the pre-attacking phases.

 Scanning:
The hacker tries to make a blue print of the target network. The
blue print includes the IP addresses of the target network which
are live, the services which are running on those systems and so
on Modern port scanning uses TCP protocol to do scanning and
they could even detect the operating systems running on the
particular hosts.

Enumeration:
Enumeration is the ability of a hacker to convince some servers to
give them information that is vital to them to make an attack. By
doing this the hacker aims to find what resources and shares can
be found in the system, what valid user account and user groups
are there in the network, what applications will be there etc.

Gaining access
This is the actual hacking phase in which the hacker gains access
to the system. The hacker will make use of all the information he
collected in the pre-attacking phases. Usually the main hindrance
to gaining access to a system is the passwords. In the System
hacking first the hacker will try to get in to the system.

 Password Cracking:
There are many methods for cracking the password and then
get in to the system. The simplest method is to guess the
password. But this is a tedious work. But in order to make this
work easier there are many automated tools for password
guessing like legion.

 Privilege escalation
Privilege escalation is the process of raising the privileges once
the hacker gets in to the system The privilege escalation
process usually uses the vulnerabilities present in the host
operating system or the software. There are many tools like
hk.exe, metasploit etc. One such community of hackers is the
metasploit

 Maintaining Access:
Now the hacker is inside the system . This means that he is now
in a position to upload some files and download some of them.
The next aim will be to make an easier path to get in when he
comes the next time. This is analogous to making a small hidden
door in the building so that he can directly enter in to the
building through the door easily
 Clearing Tracks:
Whenever a hacker downloads some file or installs some
software, its log will be stored in the server logs. So in order to
erase the hacker uses man tools. One such tool is windows
resource kit’s auditpol.exe. Another tool which eliminates any
physical evidence is the evidence eliminator.. The Evidence
Eliminator deletes all such evidences.

Ethical hacking tools:

Ethical hackers utilize and have developed variety of tools
intrude into different kinds of systems and to evaluate the
security levels. The nature of these tools differs widely.

Samspade:

Samspade is a simple tool which provides us
information about a particular host. This tool is
very much helpful in finding the addresses, phone
number etc

Email Tracker and Visual Route:

 Email tracker is a software which help us to find from
which server the mail does actually came from. Every
message we receive will have a header associated with
It . The email tracker uses this header information for find
location.

Visual route is a tool which displays the location a
particular server with the help of IP addresses. When we
connect this with the email tracker we can find the
server which actually sends the mail .

Advantages and disadvantages:
Ethical hacking nowadays is a backbone of network
security .Each day its relevance is increasing ,the
major pros & cons of ethical hacking

Advantages
 “To catch a thief you have to think like a thief”
 Help in closing the open holes in the network
 Provides security to banking and financial
establishments
 Prevents website defacements
 An evolving technique

Disadvantages
 All depend upon the trustworthiness of the
ethical hacker

 Hiring professionals is expensive

Future enhancements:

 As it an evolving branch the scope of
enhancement in technology is immense. No
ethical hacker can ensure the system security by
using the same technique repeatedly. He would
He would have to improve , develop and explore
new avenues repeatedly.

 More enhanced software’s should be used for
optimum protection . Tools used , need to be
updated regularly and more efficient ones need to
be developed

Conclusion
One of the main aim of the seminar is to make
others understand that there are so many tools
through which a hacker can get into a system. Its
various perspectives.

Student
A student should understand that no software is
made with zero Vulnerability. So while they are
studying they should study the various possibilities
and should study how to prevent that because they
are the professionals of tomorrow

Professionals
Professionals should understand that business is
directly related to security. So they should make
new software with vulnerabilities as less as
possible. if they are not aware of these then they
won’t be cautions enough in security matters

 In the preceding sections we saw the
methodology of hacking, why should we aware of
hacking and tools and some tools which a hacker
may use . Now we can see what we can do against
hacking or to protect ourselves from hacking .

 the first thing is we should keep ourselves
updated about those software's us and using
for official and reliable sources .

Educate employees and the users against black
hacking.

Use every possible security measures

 Every time make our password strong by making it
harder and longer to be cracked.

REFERENCE

 www.scribd.com

 www.wikipedia/seminartopics/ethical haching.org

 www. Seminarsonly/ethical hacking.com

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