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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

Enabling monitor mode manually

With the latest update of aircrack-ng, airmon-ng stopped working for some wireless cards. It will actually say that it enabled monitor mode on wlan0mon; so, instead of just using mon0, it's going to start calling wireless cards wlan0mon. When we try to use this card, it might not work in monitor mode, even though the card supports monitor mode. For now, with Kali 2.1, it is recommend using a different method for enabling monitor mode. This method is actually the manual method for enabling monitor mode.

Our wireless card is wlan0, so let's just take a look at it. We use the iwconfig wlan0 command; the wireless card can be seen in the following screenshot, following command execution:

As we can see in the preceding screenshot, wlan0 is now in managed mode. So, what we are going to do is enable it by using the manual method. We're going...