Video Recording

Use long distance or hidden camera

The advent of modern-day technologies like long distance or hidden cameras makes a hacker's job easier and gives more scope for the attacker to perform long range information stealing.

A hidden camera allows the attacker to capture whole login process and other confidential data of the victim, which ultimately could lead to financial loss or identity theft.

Apart from threats to password or PIN entry, hidden camera also occurs in daily situations to uncover private content on handheld mobile devices; stolen visual content can leak sensitive information and even private information about third-parties.

Wiretapping

Also known as a bug on the wire

Wiretapping is the surreptitious electronic monitoring of telephone, telegraph, cellular, fax or Internet-based communications.

Wiretapping is achieved either through the placement of a monitoring device informally known as a bug on the wire in question or through built-in mechanisms in other communication technologies. A wire maybe tapped into either for live monitoring or recording.

Packet sniffers -- programs used to capture data being transmitted on a network -- are a commonly-used modern-day wiretapping tool. A variety of other tools, such as wiretap Trojans, are used for different applications.

Keylogging

Also known as keystroke logging or system monitoring

Keylogging is a type of surveillance technology used to monitor and record each keystroke typed on a specific computer's keyboard. Keylogger software is also available for use on smartphones, such as Apple's iPhone and Android devices.

Keyloggers are often used as a spyware tool by cybercriminals to steal personally identifiable number (PIN), login credentials and sensitive enterprise data.

A hardware-based keylogger is a small device that serves as a connector between the computer keyboard and the computer. The device is designed to resemble an ordinary keyboard PS/2 connector, part of the computer cabling or a USB adaptor, making it relatively easy for someone who wants to monitor a user's behavior to hide such a device.

Phishing

Phishing is an example of social engineering

Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

The word is a neologism created as a homophone of fishing due to the similarity of using a bait try to catch a victim.

Phishing is typically carried out by email spoofing or instant messaging, and it often directs users to enter personal information at a fake website, the look and feel of which are identical to the legitimate site, the only difference being the URL of the website in concern. Communications purporting to be from social web sites, auction sites, banks, online payment processors or IT administrators are often used to lure victims. Phishing emails may contain links to websites that distribute malware.

Dictionary Attack

Is a type of brute force attack

In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is a method of hacking into a password-protected computer or server by systematically entering every word in a dictionary as a password in an attempt to find the right one.

Dictionary attacks are often successful because many users and businesses use ordinary words as passwords. These ordinary words are easily found in a dictionary, such as an English dictionary.

There are many softwares available in the online market which can perform dictionary attacks.

After all, the easiest way to attack a system is through the front door, and there must be some way to log in, therefore a hacker will try every possibility to get in.