February 19th, 2021
Ethical Hacking week 1: Introduction to ethical hacking & penetration testing
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Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing
In the first ethical hacking class, we were introduced to the 4 different types of hackers:
- Ethical hacker : Hackers hired by a company/cooperation to perform penetration testing and finding the weakness of a companies website.
- Hackers: People that access others computers, personal data without consent or permission.
- Crackers: breaks or violates the system or a computer remotely with bad intentions to harm the data and steal it. Crackers destroy data by gaining an unauthorized access to the network
- Script kiddies: have at their disposal a large number of effective, easily downloadable programs capable of breaching computers and networks