Seven-step process of a hacker

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CCNA Security: Official Exam Certification Guide
Michael Watkins and Kevin Wallace
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Mindset of hackers

Hackers use a variety of tools and techniques to hack into a system and gain unauthorised access, but usually their mind works in a pattern, find Michael Watkins and Kevin Wallace in CCNA Security: Official Exam Certification Guide. The first of a hacker’s seven-step process is ‘footprinting,’ to learn more about the system by performing reconnaissance.

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