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Applied Network Security

By : Arthur Salmon, Michael McLafferty, Warun Levesque
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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)

A KeyGrabber?

Basically, a KeyGrabber is a physical device that's developed for keylogging. A keylogger can be a piece software or hardware, that's been installed unaware to a host system with the main objective of recording any data that's been pressed on the host actual keyboard while that person is unaware. Since most hid itself as HIDs, using universal plug and play to its advantage to appear invisible' even for AV running on the OS and international formats. Since we are focusing on hardware-based attacks, it doesn't require any additional software or drivers. There are various ones provided from PS/2, USB Nano, to a wireless grabber that would send or stream data to your email with having to go back to collect the device once it's planted.