Steps for remote hacking

STEPS TO FOLLOW FOR REMOTE HACKING:

1 Information gathering/footprinting

2 Port Scanning

3 OS fingerprinting

4 Banner Grabbing

5 Vulnerability Assessment

6 Search and build exploit

7 Attack

8 Maintain Access with the help of root kits and Trojans

9 Covering Tracks

Now I will be discussing each and every steps in detail

INFORMATION GATHERING:

Information gathering is the process of getting information about the target. This is very important step in remote hacking because more the information we are having about the target more the number of attacks we can launch.

Information gathering can be done in following ways:

1 Find IP address or Url of target

2 Find out physical location of victim

3 Google hacking for advanced information gathering

Following websites can be useful for information gathering

1 Social networking websites like twitter, facebook, orkut

2 Yahoo people search

3 www.bestpeoplesearch.com

4 www.people-search-america.com

5 www.switchboard.com

6 www.i2.co.uk/anacubis

7 www.finance.google.com

8 www.finance.yahoo.com

9 www.alexa.com

10 www.who.is

11 www.dnsstuff.com

12 www.robtex.com

13 www.whatismyipaddress.com

14 www.archieve.org

15 aol people search

16 hotmail people search

17 www.spyfu.com

18 www.keywordspy.com

19 www.nslookup.com

20 www.arin.net

I will continue rest of the steps in my next article

Terms to ponder before you start hacking

What is hacking?
Hacking is a process to bypass the security mechanisms of an information system or network.Hacking is done is steps partly by creative thinking and partly by using different tools at a time.
We can also define hacking as an unauthorized use of computer and network resources

What is an exploit?
An exploit is a piece of malware code that takes advantage of newly announced or unpatched vulnerability in a software application,usually the operating system or a web browser.

What is zero-day exploit?
A zero day exploit is an exploit that takes advantage of vulnerability on the same day that the vulnerability is announced

What is vulnerability?
Software applications are composed of millions of lines of programming code,errors creep into the code and some of these errors create security vulnerabilities that malefactors can take advantage of with exploits and other malware.
Vulnerability+exploit=Hacking on remote machine

What is computer security? 
Computer Security is the protection of information from theft,corruption or natural disaster while allowing the information to remain accessible.

What is vulnerability assesment?
A vulnerability assesment is the process of identifying,quantifying and prioritizing the vulnerabilities in a system


What is penetration testing?
Penetration testing is a method of evaluating the security of computer system or network by simulating an attack from malicious source or cracker.

What is social engineering?
Social engineering is the act of manipulating people into performing hacking actions or disclosure of confidential information. In most cases attacker do not come face to face