Chapter 6. Techniques Used by Hackers

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

Image Understand the basic methodology used by hackers

Image Be familiar with some of the basic hacking tools

Image Understand the hacking mentality

Introduction

In the preceding five chapters, we have explored computer security and various security breaches. In this chapter we will be exploring the techniques that ...

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