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Article #38: Protect your website with your ethical hacking knowledge

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






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