Ethical hacking The explosive growth of the Internet has brought many good things: electronic commerce, easy access to vast stores of reference material, collaborative computing, email, and new avenues for advertising and information distribution, to name a few. As with most technological advances, there is also a dark side: criminal hackers. Governments, companies, and private citizens around the world are anxious to be a part of this revolution, but they are afraid that some hacker will break into their Web server and replace their logo with pornography, read their email, steal their credit card number from an online shopping site, or implant software that will secretly transmit their organizationu0027s secrets to the open Internet. With these concerns and others, the ethical hacker can help. This paper describes ethical hackers: their skills, their attitudes, and how they go about helping their customers find and plug up security holes. The ethical hacking process is explained, along with many of the problems that the Global Security Analysis Lab has seen during its early years of ethical hacking for IBM clients.

Applied Comparative Evaluation of the Metasploit Evasion Module The great revitalization of information and communication technologies has facilitated broad connectivity to the Internet. However, this convenience in terms of connectivity comes with costly caveats, including internet fraud, information damage or theft, and cybersecurity issues. Most individuals rely on antivirus software for protection. This antivirus software has long been a foe to malware authors, but there are brief moments when new techniques slip through the cracks, and even the most sophisticated engines sometimes fail. A new tool, namely Metasploits new evasion modules, claims to exploit that. In this study, we compare and evaluate legacy evasion techniques with the novel tactics presented by Metasploits lead researcher Wei Chen. We consider the benefits and pitfalls of each technique and evaluate the new modules successes (or failures!).