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Ethical Hacking Workshop

BY

RISHABH SINHA

Founder & CEO at TecHacks

rishabh.info

Basics of Hacking

First thing first...

What is a hack?

Unconventional way of hacking

Computer hacking

Unconventional Hacking

The way hacking should be looked at

Let's consider some examples

Did you ever break into your fridge?

And connected it from the internet?

that's an unconventional way of hacking!

Computer Hacking

The way hacking is looked at

Did you ever break into a computer system?

And took control on it?

That's computer hacking!

Basics of Ethical Hacking

What is security?

Resistance or Protection from harm.
Being free from threat/danger.

Security v/s Protection

Extremely similar concept but not the same.
Measures adopted to increase protection is security.
Type of protection against threats is security.

Hackers v/s Crackers

Hacker

The person who hacks.

Cracker

The person who destroys the system.

Hackers v/s Ethical Hackers

Hackers

Breaks laws
Gain access without authorization

Ethical Hackers

Does the same stuff with permission/authorization
Employed by companies/agencies to perform tests.

Types of Hackers

White Hat Hackers

Experts who fight against black-hats.
Use their skills/talent for legal purposes only

Black Hat Hackers

Use their skills for malicious/harmful intents.
Threaten people with their confidential data like credit card details, etc.

Grey Hat Hackers

A combo of white-hats & black-hats.
They use their skills/talents for national security but through illegal ways.

Some hackers you should know about...

Pranav Mistry

Pranav Mistry is a research assistant at MIT Media Labs and the famous developer of 6th Sense Technology.

Koushik Dutta

Koushit Dutta is the man behind Clockworkmod & ROM Manager for Android.

Hari Prasad

A renowned security researcher, and winner of EFF Pioneer Award.

Found significant vulnerabilities in EVMs (Electronic Voting Machines)

Jayant Krishnamurthy

He is one of the researchers who are behind designing MD6 algorithm (yeah you heard it right, the evolution of MD5). He is a top level computer theorist and researcher.

That's it.

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