-: Welcome back.
This is a brand-new introduction
to anonymity bonus section that we just added to the course.
This was heavily requested by a lot of students, and
in here we're going to introduce ourselves to
the basic steps used to anonymize ourselves on the internet.
Now, since this is an ethical hacking course
and our focus is on using different tools
and learning the process of penetration test,
in that sense
we're not going to be only covering this section
as a standalone one, but actually we will try to tie it
to the course in certain videos.
How are we going to do that?
Well, we are going to take a look at anonymity
for both personal use in case, you just want to
be more private when browsing the internet
or doing your usual daily tasks.
But we are also going to take a look at anonymity
while hacking or while performing penetration tests.
This will mostly focus on using different tools
with VPN or using them through a proxy
in order to hide ourselves better during our attacks.
Usually, many tools have proxy option that allows our
for example, scans to go
through a third party before reaching the target
making the target essentially not know where the scans
or attacks are coming from.
Why is this required?
Well, some clients might ask you to
perform the penetration test anonymously.
Maybe they want to see if they will be able to
trace you back during your penetration tests.
On the other hand, if you just want to anonymize yourself
for private reasons due to, for example,
not wanting to be tracked by a certain website,
certain company
or certain malicious people, we will cover that as well.
For example, did you know that using a browser
like Google Chrome provides almost no privacy
or anonymity at all?
Certain browsers and programs collect your data
in order to better show you ads, or that is
at least what they say the reason is.
We will show some alternative browsers
that we can use to increase our privacy and anonymity.
Besides that, on our hacking site,
as we already mentioned
it'll help us make us more anonymous
during our penetration tests.
For example, this is what a normal scan that we did
in the scanning section looks like.
Our IP address is, for example, is
111.22.33.44,
and we are directly scanning the target.
The target would then
know where these scans are coming from.
But if we, for example, use something like a proxy
then our scans are not directly going to the target.
Therefore, the target itself will think
that our scans are coming from a different IP address
which will be an IP of our proxy or of our middle source.
This principle is rather the same for personal use.
It's just that in personal use, we are not performing scans
but we are rather doing something like visiting a website.
We don't want to do it directly, but rather
with the help of something like a VPN or proxy as well.
So, the end point website really doesn't know where
we are connecting from.
In that sense, we acquired anonymity
and to do all of this for both personal and hacking use
we're going to cover three main things.
These things are VPNs, tor browser, and proxies.
You probably already heard of all three of them
but if you didn't, don't worry.
We will be devoting a lecture to each one
of them to see how we can use it
and why does it help us in privacy and anonymity.
Let's start, First of all
with tor browser in the next lecture.