Hacking into Hackers’ Head: A step towards creating CyberSecurity awareness

By Kamal Nayan

According to Einstein, “There are two things which have no end, one is UNIVERSE and the second is Human's STUPIDITY”. So, don't be fooled, never click on any file sent through chatting. And keep one thing in mind that "Hacking can only be done through your mistakes”.

This book is written for both technical and non-technical persons, and layman terminologies are used, so as anyone can easily understand. This will NOT teach you to be a hacker, but will teach you what hackers do, how do they think, and how they perform hacking. If you know their intention, you can prevent yourself from being hacked. Please keep in mind that you can’t prevent fully but can minimize the chances of being a victim.

It will also discuss about the most used hacking methodologies, what leakage in system let it gets performed and how can you prevent yourself from it. Play safe, Stay safe!

I'm sure this book is going to help you in your day to day cyber life. Please do read, and leave a lovely comment.

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Contents Overview:

Introduction

Classification of Hackers

Why do they hack?

Phases of Hacking

Methods of Hacking and Preventive Actions

Digital Foot-printing

Social Engineering

Password Cracking

Passive Attacks

Keyloggers

Denial of Service (Dos Attack)

SQL Injection

XSS (Cross site Scripting)

Cross Site Request Forgery, CSRF

Spoofing

Stenography

Man In The Middle, MITM

Malwares

Bonus: Google Hacking Tools that assist Hackers

Prevention from Hackers

Laws and Liabilities in India

Case Study

Aadhaar data breach – January

Facebook data breach – March

Facebook data breach – Sep

Yahoo! Data breaches – August

LinkedIn breach – May

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kamal Nayan
• Release date: Oct 1, 2018

Book preview

Hacking

into

Hackers’ Head

Hack the hackers before hackers hack you

Kamal Nayan

Hacking into Hackers’ Head. Copyright © 2018 by Kamal Nayan.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. 

First Edition

Preface

It's quite important to know about hacking because, under controlled circumstances and with proper authority, these skills can be used to determine system vulnerabilities, which can be further used to counter the attacks done on the system. A hacking proverb says, 'Hack the hackers, before hackers hack you'.

What we cover here?

In this book, we will cover some basic approach, tools and techniques used by penetration testers and hackers to discover system vulnerabilities including social engineering, spoofing, foot-printing etc. This is needed because, if we know their intention, I can't say that you can truly be safe, but yes, you can prevent yourself to a much higher extent, risk of getting hacked gets reduced. Moreover, we will see some examples of the hacking acts done during last few years, with its severity. We will also discuss the laws and liabilities that are used in India for the hackers.

What we won’t cover?

I have written this book for all kind of readers, whether he is technical or not. So, we won’t cover any of the method in details to hack anything. However, I’ll give basic idea that how these things are performed, and most importantly how can you prevent yourselves.

This book is for basic awareness and safety tips for the hacking. I’ll soon come up with a new book for discussing all the methods with live demo in details.

Bonus content

We have added a separate chapter for most common Google dorks, commonly known as Google Hacking, using this you can search like a pro.

This document is only for educational purpose and creating awareness. Requesting you to not to misuse, as this may lead to cybercrime, a punishable offence under law, and author is not responsible for any such mis-happenings.

Table of Contents

Preface

What we cover here?

What we won’t cover?

Bonus content

Introduction

The term "Hacker"

Classification of Hackers

Coders, the real heroes

Admins

Script Kiddies, the copy paste man

White Hat Hackers, the word Ethical suits me

Black Hat Hackers, aka Crackers

Grey Hat Hackers

Hacktivists

Why do they hack?

Phases of Hacking

Information Gathering

Tools used

Scanning

Gaining Access

Maintaining access

Performing required task

Clearing the footprints

Methods