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February 19th, 2021

Ethical Hacking week 1: Introduction to ethical hacking & penetration testing

Posted by 2101716773krishita in Ethical Hacking & Penetration Testing

In the first ethical hacking class, we were introduced to the 4 different types of hackers:

  1. Ethical hacker : Hackers hired by a company/cooperation to perform penetration testing and finding the weakness of a companies website.
  2. Hackers: People that access others computers, personal data without consent or permission.
  3. 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
  4. Script kiddies: have at their disposal a large number of effective, easily downloadable programs capable of breaching computers and networks

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