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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

WPS cracking

Cracking WPA or WPA2 encrypted networks isn't simple, especially since all of the packets that are sent out are not useful for us, as they do not contain any information that can help us to determine the WPA key. Before we get into cracking WPA and WPA2, we will look at a feature called WPS; it allows users and clients to connect to the network by the push of a button. On Windows 8, if you look on some Wi-Fi printers, they have a WPS button; if you press the WPS button and go to your router and press the WPS button as well, or if you go to the configuration page and press the WPS button, the client, printer, or Windows device will connect to the network without having to enter the key. WPS is a feature that allows clients to connect to a network easily, without having to enter the WPA key manually; it's just a feature in routers.

This feature authenticates...