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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

Running Nexpose

OK, now that we have installed Nexpose successfully, let's see how we can run it and see what it is. We've spoken about it a lot and we went through the installation process, but we still haven't seen what the tool does. The first thing to do before we can run the tool is to make sure that the database that comes with Kali Linux is turned off, because Nexpose uses its own database. If we have both of them running on the same port, they'll conflict with each other. The first thing we're going to do is stop the postgresql service; make sure that we have it in our mind that every time, before we run Nexpose, we turn off our database. We do it using the same command that we used in Chapter 10, Gaining Access to Computer Devices. It's service postgresql stop, and it will make sure that the service is stopped.

Now, we're going to navigate...