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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)

Social Engineering Toolkit and Browser Exploitation

In this chapter, we will explore how social engineering and browser exploitation impact cyber security. The topics covered will include using social engineering toolkit (SET), cloning website login pages, constructing phishing campaigns, exploring SET attack options, defining browser exploits, using Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF), and discussing defense methods. This chapter focuses on the tools used for social engineering and browser exploitation. There will be labs and screenshots of how to use SET and BeEF. We will also discuss how to defend against these types of attacks. The objective of this chapter is to give the reader applied knowledge of the tools used for social engineering and browser exploitation attacks. It is recommended that you use a Kali Linux machine to run the labs on your own. Both tools (SET and BeEF) come built into Kali Linux and...