CHAPTER 5
Attacks

In this chapter, you will learn about

• Differences between hackers and crackers

• Differences between white hats, black hats, and gray hats

• Denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service attacks

• Botnets and zombies

• Sniffers and sniffing attacks

• Zero day exploits

• Advanced persistent threats

• Social engineering tactics

• The importance of training to reduce social engineering attacks