BySydney Butler-August 3, 2019.1092 Hacking is the general term for intrusions or subversion of the computer system committed by experts. It’s called a hacker the guy behind the attack. That does sound very intimidating right? Well it turns out that the majority of hackers use fairly so-known hacking methods. For one principle reason, they keep using them-they work! As a non-hacking internet denizen you have no excuse to be a victim of these common methods of hacking. All you need is to have the right knowledge pre-warned. If you are smart about incoming threats they have less chance to hurt you. So what are those tried-and-trusted forms of hacking? Get ready for some inspiring stuff!
.1093 “Phishing” is as it sounds more or less. It’s a hacking method where the target gets tricked into giving up their personal information or protection. Phishing is typically committed through emails. You may receive an email from a legitimate source which appears to be. Banks are a common example but an example of fake work email messages and the like can also be found. The general idea is to have you signed into your “wallet” The message’s actual sender will then have your credentials and may use it to sign in. The link provided in the phishing email typically results in a fake version of the actual site. Sometimes copied poorly and with a slightly different Url than the actual site. That is why you should still manually type in Urls and never follow the links from unsolicited emails. Many people aren’t fooled by phishing emails but the hacker in question doesn’t matter. After all you do not try to catch any fish in the ocean when you go fishing. You are looking for the one gullible enough fish to take the bait. Don’t be a fish like that.
.1094 Why do you spend your time hacking the code manually when you can write a computer program to do it for you? There were computer viruses long before there was a global Internet accessible by the general public. The menagerie of malicious software has since evolved. Now we’ve got trojan adware horses and network worms. As we speak hackers invent new kinds of malware. Viruses are spread as attachments to email files, or through removable storage such as flash drives. Internet worms spread through networks. Trojans in seemingly legitimate apps are hidden away. When it comes to malware there are many more varieties and variations. Ransomware for example has recently become popular. It is a form of malware that uses counter victim encryption. User files are encrypted in the background following infection. Thereafter a message is shown indicating a request for payment. Upon having the ransom money the hacker wants to open the files. Although no promise is provided that they will do so. The ways of protecting against malware differ according to the type of malware. One necessary step is to have good anti-malware tools. Operating systems such as Windows 10 also come in as usual with antivirus software. Worms can have another element already included in current operating systems blocked by firewalls. Also, you should avoid opening attachments from unknown emails and not simply install any old software on the net. Social Engineering
.1095 If you had to guess which aspect of a computer security program would usually be the weakest point? The answer usually has nothing to do with technology, it turns out. Invariably, the hardest to hack are the individuals who are part of that security system. Hackers can call someone at a company they’re targeting to think they’re someone in authority. As a cleaner or technician, they may make a fake uniform and gain physical access to a target organization. Whatever the approach the aim is to use human psychology vulnerabilities to obtain information and access that would otherwise be denied to them.DdoS attacks are designed to target the actual network infrastructure which provides access to the target server but hackers can also launch a single computer denial of service attack. The single computer uses a special script to overflow the target machine with requests that saturate its hardware and memory processing. DdoS attacks are generally more effective because they are more difficult to block. Which is why in the last few years they seem to have been more successful. Individual users really don’t have to worry about these attacks, because they’re not the target. Although if the site you want to access is down thanks to DdoS attacks it can be annoying.
The Water Hole Method
Likewise a hacker uses this strategy to indirectly reach its targets. They can attack a website or source of software which is known to be popular with its true target. When the true target gets infected in effect the hacker will take over the real target systems systematically. This approach’s strength is that the hacker doesn’t have to contend with the supposedly strong safety.
Fake WiFi Hotspots
.1096 Hackers have gone beyond passively tracking other people on public WiFi who do not secure their apps. Set up fake WiFi hot spots in something that sounds like a real-world implementation of the water hole hackers method. They are going to name them something that is similar to the real thing. Something like “Airport Lounge” or “Hotel WiFi” When somebody connects to the network the hacker has complete control over the packets. They are unable to break the encryption of websites which use technology such as Háps. However any unencrypted network traffic can be intercepted and there are a number of techniques that can be used to infect the computer with malware or otherwise hack it when linked to the WiFi hot spot that has been compromised.
Clickjacking
Clickjacking is a nasty trick hackers can pull when surfing on web users. It’s essentially a tactic to fool you by clicking on something other than what you thought you clicked on. You may think you’re clicking on a video to view it, for example, but hackers have put an invisible layer over the website you’re accessing that sends your click elsewhere. Maybe a button that allows a credit card payment automatically, or one that triggers a purchase from Amazon that they can use to farm affiliate money. What the hacker ends up using your stolen click is up to them in the end. The process however is generally the same. Dictionary Password Attacks
.1097 The key to the account behind it is your password. Do you picture someone getting their hands on their email password? What’s up with your bank account? This is not an enormous issue on paper as most sites require just a few attempts before locking up. It would take years to formulate a standard password, or try some combination of letter numbers and symbols. Assuming the mix is truly random. Obviously this means you should not have any passwords that are mainly susceptible to dictionary attacks. For info on how to do that, check out our post on strong passwords. A great way to make password cracking obsolete is also two-factor authentication. So consider allowing two-factor authentication for any service that allows this to happen.
Man-in – the-Middle Hacking Methods
How do you know you’re the only two people in a conversation when you send messages to someone else? Consider talking to you and to another person via email. You place a seal on the envelope and transfer it. A few weeks later you get your friend’s letter still sealed up. And you know the message wasn’t tampered with by a hacker. Except there is an expert who intercepts your letters to forge seals. He receives and reads your post and opens it up. Then reseal it with a seal of his own and give it to the true recipient. In the reverse the same thing happens. Each person thinks he has a safe private conversation with the other guy. Of fact the man-in – the-middle can see all that’s said.