What is a carpenter without a hammer? “Hackers” require tools in order to attempt to compromise a systems security. Some tools are readily available and some are actually written by other hackers, with the sole intent of being used for system break-ins. Some “hackers’ use a little ingenuity with their attacks and don’t necessarily rely on any particular tool. In the end however it boils down to they need to infect your system in order to compromise it. To better understand the means by which “hackers” compromise system security I feel it important to understand what tools they use. This will give you as a user insight as to what exactly they look for and how they obtain this information. In this section, I also explain how these tools are used in conjunction with each other.
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