How do you know if your computer has been owned !

The first and the most important step of being an ethical hacker is securing your computer and network first, and in order to that you have to gain some basic knowledge about the incoming and outgoing connection from / to your computer.

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how you can find out if your computer has been hacked or not, without downloading anything from the internet, just using a simple tool comes pre-installed in windows OS called “netstat”, this tool can tell you a lot about outgoing and incoming connections from outside to your computer and much more than that, all we need from this tool in this tutorial is to find out about the strange connection by finding the open connections and which ports has been used to establish those connections

List of common ports used in remote administration tools (RATS):

• -          Bifrost : 81
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• -          DarkComet : 1604
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• -          NjRAT : 1177
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• -          Metasploit meterpreter : 4444