In this video, we're going to go over some ethical hacker terminologies so that when we're going over
more information throughout the course that ties around these key terms, you're not necessarily left
behind.
You no one understand what these mean and what these are essentially used for.
So let's go ahead and jump in here.
So the first term that I want you to become aware of here is nice and simple one here.
A threat, a threat is simply a situation that could lead to a potential breach of security.
Right.
Nice and simple, straightforward explanation there and exploit.
This is a piece of software or technology that takes advantage of a bug glitch or vulnerability leading
to unauthorized access of a system.
Right.
This is essentially where a hacker is getting access to a system through some type of mechanism.
Right.
Some type of technology, software, whatever that may be, to be able to gain unauthorized access vulnerability.
This is the existence, right, of some type of floor design, execution, implementation within a network,
software, whatever that may be.
Right.
That is actually leaving itself open to hackers that are wanting to and looking to take over the information,
gain access, whatever that may be.
Right.
And then target of evaluation.
TOEIC this is a system, a program or network that is subject of a security analysis or attack.
So this is essentially thinking about it from the perspective of a military individual or the military
right.
Targets target of evaluation.
Just think about a target, right?
When somebody says, hey, I've seen the target, the target's over here, it's really just something
that is telling you that this is the actual target that we're looking at taking over, going after whatever
that may be.
And then we have remote this is the exploit that is sent over a network and exploits security vulnerabilities
without any prior access to the vulnerable system.
So this is where a hacker is working essentially remotely, where they are not connected to any type
of network and they're just working from really anywhere in the world.
And they don't have any prior access, but they're gaining access to a system to exploit the vulnerabilities.
And then we have local the exploit is delivered directly to the computer system or network, which requires
prior access to the vulnerable system to increase privileges.
Now, like I mentioned and gave you the example of the target of evaluation, a lot of these terms come
from the military background, right?
A lot of these terms are used in the military because they're very precise terms that are utilized in
the physical security realm as well.
And so they're essentially tying this over to the cyber security space so that security as a whole can
have the same type of terms used for both the cyber security and as well as the physical security.
And then we have here an attack, right, pretty straightforward and simple here, an attack occurs
when a system is compromised based on its vulnerability.
And so that's going to be here for the ethical hacker terminology, very straightforward.
Just giving you an overview of what exactly the main key terms are for you to know as an ethical hacker,
cybersecurity professional.
That's going to be it for this one.
And we'll see you on the next one.