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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Sabih
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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

Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP

In the last chapter, we covered another important part of penetration testing, which was about exploiting cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Now, in this chapter, we are going to be studying a tool called ZAP, which will help us detect the risks and vulnerabilities of web applications. We will then explore various scans that we can perform and also learn to read the scan results. We will see this through a few examples.

This chapter will cover the following web penetration testing topics:

  • OWASP ZAP start
  • OWASP ZAP result