Introduction to gaining access

Now you have enough information to go ahead and try to gain access to other systems, to computers, servers, web servers, and stuff like that. In this section, we're going to be talking about gaining access to computer devices. What do we mean by computer devices? Any electronic device you see is a computer. A phone, a TV, a laptop, a web server, a website, a network, a router; all of these things are computers. Each one of them has an operating system, and they have programs installed on these operating systems. In most cases, these computers are used by a user. Here, we are going to be talking about how to gain access to computers. In this example, we are going to use a computer. We are going to have a Windows device target, and we're going to have a Linux device hacker. But the concept is always the same; getting access to computer devices...