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Applied Network Security

By : Arthur Salmon, Michael McLafferty, Warun Levesque
Book Image

Applied Network Security

By: Arthur Salmon, Michael McLafferty, Warun Levesque

Overview of this book

Computer networks are increasing at an exponential rate and the most challenging factor organisations are currently facing is network security. Breaching a network is not considered an ingenious effort anymore, so it is very important to gain expertise in securing your network. The book begins by showing you how to identify malicious network behaviour and improve your wireless security. We will teach you what network sniffing is, the various tools associated with it, and how to scan for vulnerable wireless networks. Then we’ll show you how attackers hide the payloads and bypass the victim’s antivirus. Furthermore, we’ll teach you how to spoof IP / MAC address and perform an SQL injection attack and prevent it on your website. We will create an evil twin and demonstrate how to intercept network traffic. Later, you will get familiar with Shodan and Intrusion Detection and will explore the features and tools associated with it. Toward the end, we cover tools such as Yardstick, Ubertooth, Wifi Pineapple, and Alfa used for wireless penetration testing and auditing. This book will show the tools and platform to ethically hack your own network whether it is for your business or for your personal home Wi-Fi.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

SQL injection

Now that we have discussed what SQL is and how it works, we will cover some SQL vulnerabilities. As we learned earlier in this chapter, SQL is a set of instructions used to interact with a relational database. Sometimes hackers will manipulate those instructions to exploit how SQL functions. A hacker will manipulate a SQL statement to include a malicious payload within the query of the SQL statement. Here is an example of a normal SQL:
# Define POST variables
uname = request.POST['username']passwd = request.POST['password']# SQL query vulnerable to SQLisql = "SELECT id FROM users WHERE username='" + uname + "' AND password='" + passwd+"'"
# Execute the SQL statement
database.execute(sql)

A hacker would then look at this code and decide where to inject malicious code. The hacker could inject malicious code that would alter the SQL...