Principles of Ethical Hacking

This book is designed for use in courses on Ethical Hacking & its Methodology at the undergraduate/postgraduate level particularly designed for the structured curriculum of Bachelor of Technology– Computer science & Engineering The book is organized into five sections. Section 1 covers the basics of ethical hacking limitations security testing ethics along with legal aspects. Section 2 covers the hacking methodology sniffers session hijacking denial of service (DoS) basics of web server web server hacking and web application hacking. Section 3 discusses web and network hacking sql injection wireless hacking viruses & worms physical security analysis about linux and linux hacking. Section 4 discusses the social engineering steps involved in social engineering social engineering attack impacts of social engineering fundamentals of physical penetration attacks penetration testing and its types. Section 5 includes the concepts of legal system security architecture of windows brute force attack rainbow table attack creating backdoors for windows mobile hacking - SMS & call forging Caller id forging / spoofing SMS routing in GSM and bluesnarfing.