Through this explanation, we have got a deep understanding of the different
types of hackers. In the next section, we will have a brief description about
penetration testing.
What is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing is a technical name that lets users find loopholes in the
system to fix them. Usually, security researchers
perform penetration testing
attacks to help the company.
Penetration testing tool kit
Kali Linux provides a lot of tools for penetration testing in its resources. As
explained before there are a lot of stages
that need to be performed to
confirm that the system is completely safe from any attacks. For this
purpose, you need to perform all the penetration
tasks like scanning,
vulnerability testing, mock exploiting. It is better and safe if you can
maintain a backup procedure for all the data that is present .
In the next section, we will discuss some of the famous cyber-attacks that
had happened. This is theoretical information and can help you understand
the scope of hacking and threats hacking may possess to both economic and
safety prospects.
What are cyber-attacks?
The Internet is a weird and dangerous place. A lot of people try to find the
real place of the internet which is buried deep beneath the dark web. The
dark web is a place that cannot be accessed by normal browsers like chrome
in any way. To access dark web websites, you need to use the TOR browser,
about which we have discussed already.
Dark web consists of a lot of websites that
sell stolen information by
hackers. This is where hackers who have found a loophole in a famous
system will try to take advantage of it by selling it to other hackers. A lot of
cyberattacks happen for two reasons. Out of them,
one is money and the
other is cyberwar between countries.
You might have heard about ransomware virus that had spread into millions
of systems a few years back. This is a perfect example of a cyber-attack.
Here are the top three cyberattacks that have happened in the last decade or
so.
