How to be an Ethical Hacker
What is Ethical Hacking, how to be an Ethical Hacker Hacking is the process of discovering vulnerabilities in a system and using these found vulnerabilities by gaining unauthorized access into the system to perform malicious activities such as deleting system files or stealing sensitive information. It is illegal in terms of unauthorized access, fraud and theft of service. While Ethical hacking is a legitimate simulated cyber-attack against your computer system to check for exploitable vulnerabilities such as unprotected inputs that are susceptible to code injection attacks and attempted breach of number of application systems, i.e. application protocol interfaces (APIs) or front-end/backend servers. Who performs Ethical Hacking? It is preferable to have an individual that performed ethical hacking with no prior knowledge of how the system is secure because they may be able to expose blind spots missed by the developers who built the system. Outside contractors are usually b...