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What are the phases of Ethical Hacking?
- There are total 6 phases of Ethical Hacking.
1. Information Gathering.
2. Scanning.
3. Gaining Access.
4. Maintaing Access.
5. Clearing Logs.
6. Reporting. (as we are talking about Ethical Hacking)
Information Gathering
· Information Gathering is the method
of gathering different types of information against the targeted victim or system.
· It is the first step or the
beginning stage of Ethical Hacking, where the penetration testers and hackers
(both black hat or white hat) performs this stage.
- This method is also known as footprinting or reconnaissance.
Scanning
- Scanning is the
second step after information gathering.
- In Scanning
Hacker(both black and white) scans the different target networks and
systems and tries to find vulnerability on the base of information he
gathered and as soon as he finds it he will go for 3 step Gaining Access.
Gaining Access
- Gaining Access
is the third step or phase of hacking.
- In this phase
hacker (both white and black) tries to exploit the vulnerability with different
method and will keep trying until he will not gain access to the system.
Maintaining Access
- Maintaining Access
is the fourth step of hacking .
- In this phase
after gaining access hacker will try to maintain the access by creating
backdoors and other stuff so that he can access the system whenever he
wants.
- Maintaining
Access is done by both white and black hat hackers.
Clearing Logs
- Clearing Logs is
the last step for black hat hacker but second last step for ethical hacker.
- In this step
hackers clears all the logs and evidence against him so that no one will
be able to track him and he will be safe.
Reporting
- This the last
step for Ethical Hacker.
- In this steps he
reports the vulnerability exploited by him as he was testing company’s
system with their permission.
Author: Param Dhagia
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