Social Engineering

Social engineering refers to pressuring people in a targeted organization to disclose sensitive or confidential information.

Steps of Social Engineering:

Name of Term Description of term
Research The process of collecting information about the target company
Select target The process of Choosing a target employee of a targeted company
Relationship It is Gaining the trust of your target employees by building relationships
Exploit The process of Extracting information from  targeted employees
Identity theft  Identity theft occurs when someone steals your personal information to commit fraud.

Ethical Hacking Cheatsheet

Ethical hacking includes authorized attempts to gain unauthorized access to computer systems, applications, or data. Ethical hacking requires replicating the strategies and behaviors of malicious attackers. This practice helps identify security vulnerabilities, So they can be fixed before malicious attackers can exploit them. 

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Legal Laws and Cyber Acts:

Name of Term Description of term RFC 1918 For Private IP Standard  RFC 3227 For Data collection and storage  ISO 27002 For Information Security Guidelines CAN-SPAM For Email Marketing SPY-Act For License Enforcement  DMCA For Intellectual Property  SOX For Corporate Finance Processes GLBA For Personal Finance Data  FERPA For Education Records  FISMA For Government Networks Security Standards CVSS For Common Vulnerability Scoring System  CVE For Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure...

Reconnaissance:

Footprinting information:...

Scanning Networks:

Involves collecting additional information about the victim’s host, port, and network services. It aims to identify vulnerabilities and then plan attacks....

Enumeration:

Enumeration is a process in ethical hacking, which Interact with the system and interrogate it to obtain the necessary information. Involves the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities....

Sniffing:

Sniffing Involves retrieving packets of data over a network using a specific program or device....

System Hacking:

System hacking is defined as a compromise between a computer system and software to gain access to a target computer and steal or misuse their sensitive information....

Social Engineering:

Social engineering refers to pressuring people in a targeted organization to disclose sensitive or confidential information....

Web Hacking:

Web hacking generally refers to exploiting applications over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). This can be done by manipulating the application through a web graphical interface, by manipulating the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), or by abusing HTTP elements....

Cryptography:

Encryption is the process of hiding sensitive information....

Cloud Security:

Cloud providers implement restricted access and access policies with logs and the ability to request access and denial reasons....