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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)

Summary

At the beginning of this chapter, we discussed the history of the WLAN standard and various wireless vulnerabilities. Next, we built off this information by next introducing a new piece of penetration testing equipment called the Pineapple. The second topic, explained how the Pineapple is used to find vulnerabilities and conduct network penetration testing. Next, we focused how the Pineapple was set up and configured to connect online. Then, we covered how to perform a network scan by using the recon functions found within the Pineapple. After the scan, we demonstrated how to log and report captured data from modules like PineAP. Screenshots of the module interfaces were used throughout this chapter, allowing the reader to gain applied knowledge. The screenshots also provided a chance to observe the many different capabilities and functions of the Pineapple. The Chapter 17, Offensive Security and Threat...