NATIONAL INFORMATION SECURITY EDUCATION & AWARENESS PROGRAM

Linux User Group of BIT MesraSponsored by www.thehackbook.com

Introduction To Ethical Hacking By Neel kamal

Hacker

What is Hacking

Hacking is the art of finding a solution to real life problems

Who is Hacker

Hackers are developers. Hackers are those geeks and scientists

who provide IT solutions to real life problems.

Hackers think beyond the boundaris e.g : Newton , Einstein , J.C Bose

Examples

Social Networking site for plants. Sending sms to smart phone whenever a

post man delivers the letter in the letter box.

Sending sms to near & dear ones whenever you reach the destination.

Hackers

Development of Science <><> Hackers

Misconception

What about those who break into systems?

Are they hacker? The answer is no.

Who is Responsible for misconception

Media is the root cause of all this misconception.

Lack of Awareness among common students and people.

Cracker

One who breaks into systems illegally are crackers.

They are bad guys or gals

Case studies (Mumbai India)

Lady living in one-room apartment. Lady had the habit of chatting on internet

with strangers. An attacker from Russia installed Trojan in

her system. With the help of Trojan he switched her

web camera on. And make it live on internet and invaded

her privacy.

case studies cont.

It continued for 3-4 months. When she went for job interview she her

boss immediately exclaimed that she would definitely get the job as he enjoyed her on pornographic website on a regular basis.

The attacker was never caught

Impacts

Privacy Invasion Harassment and mental torture The lady almost became paranoid and

never want to use internet again.

Hacker vs Cracker

o Qualities of hacker:

Lots of knowledge

Good Guy

Strong Ethics

Helps in catching cyber criminals

Hacker vs Cracker

Qualities of cracker

Lots of knowledge

Bad ethics

Cyber criminals

Skills of Hacker

Learn Programming languages ( C, C++) Learn scripting languages ( JSP, Python,

PHP ) Good knowledge of database and query

languages (SQL, YQL, FQL, etc) Learn Networking (TCP/IP) Learn to work in Unix Start playing with web api’s

Options for 12th students

There is no any substitute of BE/B.tech Should not go for CEH or certification

courses in Ethical Hacking and penetration Testing

career options

Indian universities don’t provide under grad degree in Information Security.

One can opt for CS/IT/ECE in Indian universities

Thank You

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