This is an important step in the hacking process. After having a brief scan
and obtaining information about the systems in this step hackers will start
attacking the system using various methods. A good hacker always chooses
his way of attacking according to the environment that he is attacking on. A
novice hacker can read hundreds of books but if he cannot use this
information depending on the environment and resources, he has then there
is no way that the access will be cracked.
There are infinite ways of getting access to the system. Out of all these, the
most classical way is to use social engineering
abilities to trick the users
that are present in the network area. It may be by sending an attachment to
the receptionist or by getting connected to the modem of the LAN network
using someone's landline phone. Getting access to the system doesn't result
in successful exploiting because of less or void permissions. Some
introduction detection systems can detect your
access to system providers
with a message.
After getting access to the system a hacker will further move to the deeper
areas of the network that is to the closer areas of the root directory for full
administrative privileges. Follow along with the next section to understand
what one can do using the exploitation abilities.
4) Using Access to Further Exploit
After having successful access in the next stage hackers try to stay as much
as the time in the system. An attacker usually tries to extend his capabilities
or reach in the area and tries to acquire the root privileges which can help
him get additional use cases to perform.
The main reason why hackers can get succeeded in this phase is because of
bugs and vulnerabilities that are present in the web application systems or
the login interfaces that the system users use.
Professional hackers use
hardware hacking devices like keyloggers to know passwords or secret root
directories. In the next section, we will describe the most important phase
of hacking in detail .
