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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch.

By : Zaid Sabih
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Book Image

Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch.

5 (1)
By: Zaid 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

Summary

The first section of the chapter was about the MITM framework, which can be used for one of the most powerful attacks we can perform on a network. We performed a MITM attack using arpspoof, we bypassed HTTPS, we indulged in session hijacking, we looked at DNS-spoofing, we saw keyloggers, and we covered code injection.

Later, we learned about the Wireshark tool, which is a very effective tool for gathering information about clients by analyzing the packets that are sent in and out through a particular target. It lets users decode the information it carries. We learned the basics of how to use it, and we also learned how to apply and analyze a few filters.

The next chapter covers the ARP poisoning attack, as well as how to detect and prevent this attack. We will be using Wireshark for detection.