The 2021 Cyber Security Beginners Guide: Part 2 - Hacking

You will learn the different components of Hacking: Reconnaissance, Scanning, Gaining access, Maintaining access & Clearing tracks. You will have a firm understanding of places of hacking and mind map apart from gaining insights of denial of service, distributed denial of service, syn flooding attach using hping3, counter measures and Metasploit test.

Section 1: Components of Hacking:

Reconnaissance

Scanning

Gaining access

Maintaining access

Clearing tracks

Section 2: Ethical hacking Mindmap

Ethical hacking

Places of ethical hacking

Mind map

Section 3: DoS and DDoS

Denial of services

Symptoms of dos attack

Slow performance

Increase in spam emails

Unavailability of a resource

Loss of access to a website

Denial of access to any internet services

Distributed denial of services (DDoS)

DoS/DDoS attack techniques

Land and flood attacks

Service request floods

Section 4: SYN flooding attach using hping3

Section 5: Counter Measures

Counter-measures

DoS/DDoS countermeasure strategies

Detech and neutralize handlers

Monitoring the activities running on a system of network

Deflect attacks by load balancing

Mitigate attacks disabling unnecessary services

Intrusion detection systems

Wavelet analysis

Section 6: Metasploit test

Metasploit is so popular is the wide range of tasks that it can perform to ease the work of penetration testing to make

systems more secure. Metasploit is available for all popular operating systems.

Vulnerability

Exploit

Payload

Meterpreter

Type of Cybercrime

• The following list presents the common types of cybercrimes:

• Computer Fraud: Intentional deception for personal gain via the use of computer systems.

• Privacy violation: Exposing personal information such as email addresses, phone number, account details, etc. on social media, hacking a websites, etc.

• Identity Theft: Stealing personal information from somebody and impersonating that person.

• Sharing copyrighted files/information: This involves distributing copyright protected files such as eBooks and computer programs etc.

• Electronic funds transfer: This involves gaining an un-authorized access to bank computer networks and making illegal fund transfers.

• Electronic money laundering: This involves the use of the computer to launder money.

• ATM Fraud: This involves intercepting ATM card details such as account number and PIN numbers. These details are then used to withdraw funds from the intercepted accounts.

• Denial of Service Attacks: This involves the use of computers in multiple locations to attack servers with a view of shutting them down.

• Spam: Sending unauthorized emails. These emails usually contain advertisements.