Welcome to Section five and this section, we're going to go over how to hide your identity on the Web.
This is a very important section here as well, because you want to be able to at all times not have
any tracks lead back to you as far as any type of activity that you're doing, because as a ethical
hacker, we want to always remain anonymous.
We don't want to let people know who we are, what we're doing, our location, because we always want
to be putting ourselves in the mind of the black hats.
They're the ones that are actually taking all these precautions, that are doing all these different
things to remain anonymous.
And so we want to also follow in their footsteps so we can step into that frame.
Right.
Step into that mindset.
But also understanding that when we're doing different types of testing, when we're trying out different
strategies, different methods, we always, always want to be covering our track.
And so let's go ahead and jump in to the Section five overview.
In this Section five, we're going to go over a few ways that you can hide your identity and maintain
your privacy.
And specifically, what we're going to cover here is privacy.
And knowing your I.P. address, this is very important here.
What exactly is privacy?
How does it work in the importance of knowing your IP address and how you're able to get detected through
your IP address?
This is something that essentially lets people know your location, your device, and it's something
that you want to make sure that you are aware of all times.
Right, as far as your IP address on your device.
And then we're going to go over the Tor browser.
This is a browser specifically set up to be able to hide your identity.
And then we're also going to go over the ANANA surf and then using a VPN where we're going to be able
to set up a virtual private network and be able to connect through that so we can access different websites,
different information.
So we're essentially hiding all of our traps.
And then we're going to go over understanding public Wi-Fi versus home Wi-Fi and then a virtual private
server recommendation from Digital Ocean for about six dollars a month.
Very inexpensive.
So why is it important here, first and foremost, to remain private on the Web?
If you think about it, privacy can be defined as a state or condition of being free from being observed
or disturbed by other people.
So you are essentially hiding all information about you.
You can be essentially in a whole nother country, right.
In a whole different continent, and then have a specific IP address that says that you are in the states.
Right.
So for our purposes, for what we're doing for ethical hacking practices, we want and prefer for people
not to be able to know what we're doing and know who we are, where we're located.
Right.
We can be in a different continent, different country, but we want to be able to change that information
so we're not able to be identified.
Right.
Completely remaining anonymous.
And like I mentioned previously, we're wanting to mimic exactly what an actual black hacker would be
doing.
Right, so that we can find different loopholes that they would be able to exploit.
Right.
And be able to cover those, because that's essentially what an ethical hacker is.
We are essentially looking at things from a perspective of a black hacker and how they would go about
exploiting different loopholes so we can cover those and patch any of those books.
And so a quick disclaimer here.
Anything that you learn from this section or really any section within this course is purely for educational
purposes and is meant to be used for ethical hacking only.
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We do not advocate or approve anyone using these techniques to perform any type of malicious attacks
against any device or network unless given permission to do so prior.
OK, so finding your IP address, a quick and easy way to find your public IP address as to literally
go to Google and type in what's my IP or my IP address.
And it's going to pull that up very quickly, very easily for you to be able to see.
So all you got to do is literally go to Google, type in what's my IP?
You're going to have a bunch of different search results there.
Click on any one of those.
It's going to tell you your IP address.
And I also tell you your location there.
And just a quick explanation of your IP address.
Your IP address is just like a phone number and it's specific to your particular device.
So now let's go over what a sample VPN tunnel looks like.
So when we're looking to remain anonymous on the Web, one of the tools that we're going to use is a
virtual private network.
And what this does is it adds extra security and privacy to private and public network.
For example, if we're looking to connect a computer to a specific network and we don't want to give
our IP address right on a remote computer, you'll see through this image here will have a remote computer
or our computer.
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That goes and connects to a VPN.
And so what that does now is it changes.
Our IP address, our location, and it doesn't give out any of our initial computer's information or
IP address, it automatically changes it.
If our IP address on a remote computer is one, two, three, four, five, just an example.
Then when we go to the VPN, it's maybe going to be, you know, five, eight, nine and seven, whatever.
There's obviously more numbers than that in the IP address.
I'm just giving you an example of how it actually changes your IP address.
And as previously mentioned, you can be in a whole different country, whole different city, and you
can get into a VPN and it'll completely change your location, your IP address.
So you're completely remaining anonymous.
So this is a quick section overview here of what's to come.
We're going to dive deeper into the VPN, several different ways that you can remain anonymous through
the different browsers in a bunch of other techniques and methods that you can use to a completely Hijrah
identity and remain anonymous on the Web.
So that's going to be here for this one.
And we'll see you on the next one.