Tuesday, 7 June 2016
Using
simple hacks, a hacker can know about your personal unauthorized information
which you might not want to reveal. Knowing about these common hacking
techniques like phishing, DDoS, clickjacking etc. could come handy for your
personal safety.
Unethical
hacking can be called an illegal activity to get unauthorized information by
modifying a system’s features and exploiting its loopholes. In this world where
most of the things happen online, hacking provides wider opportunities for the
hackers to gain unauthorized access to the unclassified information like credit
card details, email account details, and other personal information.
So,
it is also important to know some of the hacking techniques that are commonly
used to get your personal information in an unauthorized way.
1. Keylogger
Keylogger
is a simple software that records the key sequence and strokes of your keyboard
into a log file on your machine. These log files might even contain your personal
email IDs and passwords.
Keylogger
is one of the main reasons why online banking sites give you an option to use
their virtual keyboards.
2. Denial of Service (DoS\DDoS)
A
Denial of Service attack is a hacking technique to take down a site or server
by flooding that site or server with a lot of traffic that the server is unable
to process all the requests in the real time and finally crashes down.
For
DDoS attacks, hackers often deploy botnets or zombie computers which have got
the only work to flood your system with request packets.
3. Waterhole attacks
If
you are a big fan of Discovery or National Geographic channels, you could
relate easily with the waterhole attacks. To poison a place, in this case, the
hacker hits the most accessible physical point of the victim.
For
example, if the source of a river is poisoned, it will hit the entire stretch
of animals during summer. In the same way, hackers target the most accessed
physical location to attack the victim. That point could be a coffee shop, a
cafeteria etc.
Once
hackers are aware of your timings, they might create a fake Wi-Fi access point
and modify your most visited website to redirect them to you to get your
personal information.
4. Fake WAP
Even
just for fun, a hacker can use software to fake a wireless access point. This
WAP connects to the official public place WAP. Once you get connected the fake
WAP, a hacker can access your data, just like in the above case.
5. Eavesdropping (Passive Attacks)
Unlike
other attacks which are active in nature, using a passive attack, a hacker just
monitors the computer systems and networks to gain some unwanted information.
The
motive behind eavesdropping is not to harm the system but to get some information
without being identified.
6. Phishing
Phishing
is a hacking technique using which a hacker replicates the most-accessed sites
and traps the victim by sending that spoofed link.
Once
the victim tries to login or enter some data, the hacker gets that private
information of the target victim using the trojan running on the fake site.
7. Virus, Trojan etc.
Virus
or trojans are malicious software programs which get installed into the
victim’s system and keeps sending the victims data to the hacker.
8. ClickJacking Attacks
ClickJacking
is also known by a different name, UI Redress. In this attack, the hacker hides
the actual UI where the victim is supposed to click.
In
another word, the attacker hijacks the clicks of the victim that aren’t meant
for the exact page, but for a page where the hacker wants you to be.
9. Cookie theft
The
cookies of a browser keep our personal data such as browsing history, username,
and passwords for different sites that we access. Once the hacker gets the
access to your cookie, he can even authenticate himself as you on a browser.
10. Bait and switch
Using
bait and switch hacking technique, the hacker runs a malicious program which
the user believes to be authentic. This way, after installing the malicious
program on your computer, the hacker gets unprivileged access to your computer.
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