CHAPTER 5Attacks
In this chapter, you will learn about
• Differences between hackers and crackers
• Differences between white hats, black hats, and gray hats
• Denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service attacks
• Botnets and zombies
• Sniffers and sniffing attacks
• Zero day exploits
• Advanced persistent threats
• Social engineering tactics
• The importance of training to reduce social engineering attacks
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