Modern password cracking tools, such as John the Ripper, allow a hacker to test billions of potential passwords in a matter of seconds. Not only do such tools allow a hacker to try out every password in a dictionary of common passwords, but they can also automatically transform these passwords by using concatenation (for example, password1234), leetspeak (p4s5w0rd), and other promising techniques. Though these techniques are promising, finding additional promising transformations is a difficult task. The ML system known as PassGAN uses a generative adversarial network (GAN) to automatically learn such rules by observing large datasets of real passwords (gathered from a corpus of actual password leaks) and to generate high-probability password candidates. In this recipe, you will train PassGAN on a corpus of leaked passwords and use it to generate...
Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Cookbook
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Overview of this book
Organizations today face a major threat in terms of cybersecurity, from malicious URLs to credential reuse, and having robust security systems can make all the difference. With this book, you'll learn how to use Python libraries such as TensorFlow and scikit-learn to implement the latest artificial intelligence (AI) techniques and handle challenges faced by cybersecurity researchers.
You'll begin by exploring various machine learning (ML) techniques and tips for setting up a secure lab environment. Next, you'll implement key ML algorithms such as clustering, gradient boosting, random forest, and XGBoost. The book will guide you through constructing classifiers and features for malware, which you'll train and test on real samples. As you progress, you'll build self-learning, reliant systems to handle cybersecurity tasks such as identifying malicious URLs, spam email detection, intrusion detection, network protection, and tracking user and process behavior. Later, you'll apply generative adversarial networks (GANs) and autoencoders to advanced security tasks. Finally, you'll delve into secure and private AI to protect the privacy rights of consumers using your ML models.
By the end of this book, you'll have the skills you need to tackle real-world problems faced in the cybersecurity domain using a recipe-based approach.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Machine Learning-Based Malware Detection
Advanced Malware Detection
Machine Learning for Social Engineering
Penetration Testing Using Machine Learning
Automatic Intrusion Detection
Securing and Attacking Data with Machine Learning
Secure and Private AI
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