🔐 Ethical Hacking Fundamentals – Overview
Ethical Hacking is the authorized practice of bypassing system security to identify potential data breaches and threats in a network.
Ethical hackers help organizations strengthen security by finding and fixing vulnerabilities before malicious hackers exploit them.
🎯 Who Should Learn Ethical Hacking?
Ideal for:
- IT students
- Cybersecurity beginners
- Network admins
- Developers
- Anyone preparing for CEH, OSCP, or cybersecurity careers
🧠 Core Concepts in Ethical Hacking
1️⃣ Introduction to Ethical Hacking
- What is hacking?
- White hat vs black hat vs grey hat
- Roles & responsibilities of ethical hackers
- Legal and ethical considerations
2️⃣ Cybersecurity Fundamentals
- CIA Triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)
- Threats vs vulnerabilities vs attacks
- Common attack vectors
- Security policies & risk management
3️⃣ Footprinting & Reconnaissance
- Active vs passive recon
- OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
- WHOIS lookup
- DNS enumeration
- Google dorking
4️⃣ Scanning & Enumeration
- Port scanning (Nmap)
- Network scanning
- Service detection
- Banner grabbing
- Vulnerability scanning tools
5️⃣ System Hacking Techniques
- Password cracking
- Privilege escalation
- Malware types
- Backdoors, trojans, rootkits
- Keyloggers
6️⃣ Network Attacks
- MITM (Man-in-the-middle)
- ARP poisoning
- Session hijacking
- DoS/DDoS attacks
7️⃣ Web Application Hacking
- OWASP Top 10
- SQL injection
- XSS
- Directory traversal
- CSRF
- Burp Suite basics
8️⃣ Wireless Hacking
- Wi-Fi security basics
- WEP/WPA attacks
- Deauthentication attacks
- Aircrack-ng suite
9️⃣ Sniffing & Packet Analysis
- Packet sniffers (Wireshark)
- Protocol analysis
- Detecting sniffing attacks
🔟 Tools Used in Ethical Hacking
- Nmap
- Metasploit
- Burp Suite
- John the Ripper
- Aircrack-ng
- Hydra
- Wireshark
- Nikto
🏁 Key Principles of Ethical Hackers
- Work with permission only
- Maintain confidentiality
- Report findings responsibly
- Do no harm
- Follow a professional code of conduct
💼 Career Opportunities
- Penetration Tester
- Cybersecurity Analyst
- Security Consultant
- SOC Analyst
- Vulnerability Assessment Engineer