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Points on hacking

So after a long time these are the  common terms used in the hacker community. These definitions are a must to a wanna be ethical hacker and helps a lot for a programming enthusiast. Common Terms Of Hacking World: 1#DDoS:  DDoS  means Distributed Denial of Service. This is a type of DOS attack in which multiple compromised systems are used and these systems are often infected with a Trojan. All these infected systems select a target and cause a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. 2# VPS:  It stands for  V irtual  p rivate  s erver (VPS) . It is a virtual machine that is sold as a service by an Internet hosting service. A VPS generally runs its own copy of an operating system, and the customers have superuser-level access to that operating system instance, so they can install almost any software that runs on that OS. 3# SE:  Social engineering is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking pe...