Weekly Journal for Ethical Hacking Part 1 Week1
This is the first day we are learning about Ethical hacking. Sir Charles Lim is the one that will mostly taught as about this.
Our Goal is to learn about Ethical hacking and its rules.
We were taught that ethical hacking is different from the usual hacking we heard in the medias. Ethical hacking means that you must have a permission by the owner to break into their networks security, or penetration test.
Penetration test is a legal attempt for the hacker to find the weakest link in the network. But they are not allowed to try to fix the issues, only report their findings. While for Security Tester, they are allowed to give solutions to protect the networks better.
Having a knowledge on programming languages like Perl, C, and Python would help with hacking even more. For the starter of hacking, it would be better if theu used Tiger Box, because it already has a lot of OS and hacking tools.
He reminded us that we would need to know the rules about hacking first before we try to hack anything.
The first step you have to do before hacking is to collect information about the networks you are going to break as many as possible, no matter how small the info is. Sir Charles Lim shared with us a lot of interesting website we can use for helping us to collect information necessary to help us hacking.
This websites above show all the tools could be used for looking information.
Using this both websites, I used an IP address to find more information about the network like the location.
Conclusion:
Knowledge is power. That’s the reason you can’t hack without this information.