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Understanding the Concept of Ethical Hacking Ethical hacking, often referred to as penetration testing or white-hat hacking, is the practice of intentionally probing a computer system, network, or application to find security vulnerabilities that a malicious hacker could exploit. Unlike "black-hat" hackers who act with criminal intent, ethical hackers operate under a strict code of ethics and with the legal permission of the system owner. Core Objectives of Ethical Hacking

  • Evidence: https://example.com/downloads/backup.sql.gz listed in index.
  • Risk: Database credentials and user data in plain text.
  • Remediation: Remove backups from webroot; move to secure storage; enforce access controls; rotate exposed credentials.
  • Automated scanners (use per engagement rules): dirbuster, gobuster, Nikto, Burp Suite spider.

    • Establishing persistent backdoors to ensure continued control for further testing. Covering Tracks: indexof ethical hacking