Chapter 1. Ethics of Ethical Hacking

  • Role of ethical hacking in today’s world

  • How hacking tools are used by security professionals

  • General steps of hackers and security professionals

  • Ethical issues among white hat, black hat, and gray hat hackers

This book has not been compiled and written to be used as a tool by individuals who wish to carry out malicious and destructive activities. It is a tool for people who are interested in extending or perfecting their skills to defend against such attacks and damaging acts.

Let’s go ahead and get the commonly asked questions out of the way and move on from there.

Q1:Was this book written to teach today’s hackers how to cause damage in more effective ways?
Answer:No. Next question.
Q2:Then why in the world ...

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