You have only a few good lines of defense against social engineering. Even with strong security systems, a naïve or untrained user can let the social engineer into the network. Never underestimate Full Article

  The process of social engineering is actually pretty basic. In general, social engineers find the details of organizational processes and information systems to perform their attacks. With this Full Article

Bad guys use social engineering to break into systems because they can. They want someone to open the door to the organization so that they don’t have to break in and risk getting caught. Full Article

Typically, hackers pose as someone else to gain information they otherwise can’t access. Hackers then take the information obtained from their victims and wreak havoc on network resources, steal or Full Article

You can use identified critical security holes to do the following:    Gain further information about the host and its data.  Start or stop certain services or applications.  Access other Full Article

After finding potential security holes, test whether they are vulnerabilities. Before you test, perform some manual searching. You can research hacker message boards, Web sites, and vulnerability Full Article

Active information gathering produces more details about your network and helps you see your systems from a hacker’s perspective. For instance, you can    Use the information provided by your Full Article

When you’re mapping out your network, you can search public databases and resources to see what the hackers know about you. Whois   The best starting point is to perform a Whois lookup by using Full Article

The required security-assessment tools (hacking tools) depend on the tests you’re running. You can perform some ethical hacking tests with a pair of sneakers, a telephone, and a basic workstation Full Article

You probably don’t want — or need — to assess the security of all your systems at the same time. This could be quite an undertaking and could lead to problems.   You may decide which systems Full Article

Hacking styles vary widely:  Some hackers prepare far in advance of a large attack. They gather small bits of information and methodically carry out their hacks. These hackers are more difficult to Full Article

The main reason hackers hack is because they can! Okay, it goes a little deeper than that. Hacking is a casual hobby for some hackers — they just hack to see what they can and can’t break into, Full Article

As with any project, if you don’t have the right tools for ethical hacking, accomplishing the task effectively is difficult. Having said that, just because you use the right tools doesn’t mean Full Article

Like practically any IT or security project, ethical hacking needs to be planned in advance. Strategic and tactical issues in the ethical hacking process should be determined and agreed upon. Full Article

Hacker is a word that has two meanings:    Traditionally, a hacker is someone who likes to tinker with software or electronic systems. Hackers enjoy exploring and learning how computer systems Full Article

Little more than 10 years ago, security was barely a newborn in diapers. With only a handful of security professionals in 1994, few practiced security and even fewer truly understood it. Security Full Article