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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

Creating and using snapshots

Now that we've created our virtual machines, it would be a good idea to take snapshots of them. A snapshot allows us to store the state of the current virtual machine, so that we can go back or forward in time, to a certain state. We can think of snapshots as bookmarks—for example, we can take snapshots of the fresh installations of the operating systems, and, if we update, configure, or break something in the future, we can go back to the fresh installations, or go back to the factory settings. We can also go forward to the updated system from there. We can take a snapshot whenever we want, and go back and forth between states.

The following are the steps for taking snapshots:

  1. Click on Kali Linux that we installed; it's very easy to create a snapshot of it. All you have to do is go to Snapshots and click on the camera icon, which...