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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Sabih
5 (1)
Book Image

Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

5 (1)
By: Sabih

Overview of this book

This book starts with the basics of ethical hacking, how to practice hacking safely and legally, and how to install and interact with Kali Linux and the Linux terminal. You will explore network hacking, where you will see how to test the security of wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn how to crack the password for any Wi-Fi network (whether it uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and spy on the connected devices. Moving on, you will discover how to gain access to remote computer systems using client-side and server-side attacks. You will also get the hang of post-exploitation techniques, including remotely controlling and interacting with the systems that you compromised. Towards the end of the book, you will be able to pick up web application hacking techniques. You'll see how to discover, exploit, and prevent a number of website vulnerabilities, such as XSS and SQL injections. The attacks covered are practical techniques that work against real systems and are purely for educational purposes. At the end of each section, you will learn how to detect, prevent, and secure systems from these attacks.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP

Server-side attack basics

The first step in server-side attacks is information gathering. Information gathering is very important because it will show us the operating system of the target, the installed programs, the running services on the target, and the ports associated with these services. From these installed services, we can try and get into the system. We can do this by trying the default passwords. We saw this in the network penetration testing part where the iPad had an SSH service installed that basically gave us full access to the computer if the person still uses the default password, which was alpine. We can do this with any other service, and we will do so further in this section.

There's a lot of people that install services and misconfigure them, so we'll have another example of this as well. Sometimes, a lot of these services are designed to give someone...