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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

Client-side attacks – TDM email spoofing

We've seen how we can backdoor any file and make it look like a document, a song, a program, or an image. Our example was an image, but we can do it on any file. So, we should be gathering information using Maltego and then target the person based on the information gathered. For example, we can pretend to be tech support and ask the target person to install an update and combine our backdoor within an executable, or we can just pretend to be a friend or a colleague and ask the target person to run a certain document or a PDF; the possibilities are endless. In this example, we are going to pretend to be a friend and we are going to ask the target to open a picture of an image, telling them that we are thinking of buying that car. We are going to use the backdoor that we created in the Changing extensions section and use an image...