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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

Social engineering – emails

OK, now let's see what can we get using the email of the target person, which is [email protected]. In Maltego (and we are going to add a new entity of an email address), go to Personal | Email Address, drag and drop it into the graph, and set Email Address to [email protected] from Properties, as can be seen in the following screenshot:

Properties

We managed to get an email address from the target's blog. Using the email, we're now going to see what information we can get.

Right-click the entity as usual and we will see a list of Run Transform(s). For our example, click on To Domain [DNS] and click the Run button:

Run Transforms list

We can see that we got a domain name, which is isecur1ty.org. From the following website, we are going to try to get the email addresses associated with the website:

Domain name

Right-click...