Hello world ! From today on, we will begin to learn about ethical hacking. This may be surprising or will shock you. Because it is a very interesting lesson for us. This is a very important role of our day-to-day life. There's a lot of variety in Hacking, but we’ll learn about Ethical Hacking. This type of Hacking is used for good works. This is used for gaining a lot of IT related jobs such as Ethical Hacking Jobs, Cybersecurity jobs, etc.
Today we live in a technology world, so our computers are connected to the internet. All activities happen through the internet. Basically, we have to protect our valid data from the internet. At least, we had to learn the basics of Ethical Hacking. Unfortunately, one day somebody your personal information, calls, bank details, pictures, videos, etc. day by day to improve the technology in this world.
Once upon a time, we used button phones, but now we use smartphone technology. So you should learn the basics. Nowadays, a lot of crimes happen on online platforms. Many websites are used regularly for your purposes, but generally, many websites track all your activity and privacy details. So how is leaking your data, Let me explain.
01. Go to firstpartysimulator.net, it’s look like below the picture, then click Test option. This will test your browser, how exists your browser tracks you.
When you click “test your browser” it will show like this,
Let me explain how it tracks you. I am using Google Chrome. Now, you can see the box on the page that says blocking add trackers, blocking invisible trackers, and your browser fingerprint. Now, one question arises: what is a browser fingerprint?. My browser doesn't protect any of the add tracking. Next, many companies track us with their invisible trackers, we don’t know.
Finally, all browsers have a unique fingerprint. For your understanding, How we have a unique fingerprint like that, every browser has a unique fingerprint. This is an individual ID for our computers and mobiles. This ID has all the information of you. Some of that,
01.Who are you?
02.Who is your user agent of your browser?
03. What OS you use?
04. Your Time Zone.
05. Your device size and colour depth.
06. Your system font.
Like this, your browser has all the information about you, so it is easy to hack your computer. How? Let me explain. Imagine if you want to hack an android mobile phone. But there are more than a billion mobile phones in this world. Then, how to identify your target mobile? This is the way to hack your phone. When hackers get your browser ID, they get all the specific information on your computer. It’ll easy to hack you.
Overall, at least 17.62 bits of data leaked every browsing. You’ll ask, it just a 17.62 bit. So what can they do? But according to the 2023 World Report, at least 30 bits of your data is enough to get all the details about you. 17 bits out of 30 bits already, in this browser it has. They'll track our IP further, they’ll hack your system. I'm sharing this information for you’ll know about it.
Mozilla Firefox is a better browser than Google Chrome. It has a minimum of your information. So guys, you have to protect your privacy against third person. Next article, I’ll explain some important terms in Ethical Hacking. Have a good day.