| Protect your website with your ethical | | | | attempt. |
| hacking knowledge | | | | |
| | | | And this is what an ethical hacker can't |
| 06th May 2007 | | | | fail. |
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| Author: ryan | | | | The second step is to get a working exploit |
| | | | to take advantage of the vulnerablityfound in |
| The first cause for websites being hacked is | | | | step 1. Here is where protection and fixes |
| the lack of knowledge oftheir webmasters. | | | | should take place to *prevent* the attack and |
| | | | notto just cure after the disaster. Ethical |
| Hackers or even wannabe hackers can modify | | | | hackers in this case would be able tomodify |
| your website home page,steal your website | | | | source codes to cover the holes or just |
| profits and fame by just using ready to be | | | | reduce the success rate of the attack |
| downloadedexploits published into trusted and | | | | dramatically. |
| untrusted internet security portals. | | | | |
| | | | I would strongly advise to work on the first |
| Wether you have a basic knowledge of web site | | | | step since it is the most simpleto master |
| publishing or you arean experienced webmaster | | | | wether you're not expert into security field |
| the only thing to protect yourself from | | | | or you just don't have enough money to hirean |
| hackers attacksis ethical hacking. | | | | experienced ethical hacker. |
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| Ethical hacking means understanding your | | | | Internet security knowledge is what can save |
| enemy mind, skills, intentions andstrength, | | | | your site with a very cheap price. |
| up to take the successful countermeasures | | | | |
| that will save your daily hard jobinto | | | | At the most basic level this can be achieved |
| developing a successful and trusted web | | | | by keeping yourself informed on yourwebsites |
| platform. | | | | scripts well-known vulnerabilities, available |
| | | | patches andsecurity best practices. |
| Image damages causing shareholders and | | | | |
| customers complaints, not to mention | | | | Moreover the understanding of basic attacking |
| | | | vectors like Cross site scripting or SQL |
| 6 figures money loss, is what led many big | | | | Injection willkeep you safe from a big number |
| corporations to hire dozens of ethical | | | | of wannabe hackers that you will be able |
| hackersto keep their networks and web site | | | | todefeat...with your knowledge! |
| safe from "bad" hackers. | | | | |
| | | | So next time you will see some suspicious |
| In this article I am going to focus on the | | | | activity in your website log you will be |
| following two questions: | | | | laughing at it,since not a dummy tool but |
| | | | your own knowledge as ethical hacker will be |
| What do ethical hackers do? | | | | protecting you. |
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| What can I do to protect my website if I am | | | | Armando Romeo aka Zinho is Computer Science |
| not an ethical hacker? | | | | Engineer and founder of Hackers Center |
| | | | security research group |
| The first step taken by hackers, should they | | | | |
| be ethical or evil, is to scan yourweb | | | | In 2007 has launched the Ethical Hacking kit |
| application for known vulnerabilities. This | | | | project located at - the onlypackage of |
| can be achieved through apenetration testing | | | | papers and tools available for ethical |
| process that can be manual or automated by | | | | hackers and webmasters to speed up their |
| some programsand scripts. This is the most | | | | internetsecurity learning process. |
| important and crucial task in every attack | | | | |