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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Sabih
5 (1)
Book Image

Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

5 (1)
By: 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

BeEF – Pretty Theft

Now let's have a look at a Social Engineering plugin that will allow us to steal usernames and passwords from accounts. Basically, it will dim the screen and will tell the person that they got logged out of the session so they need to log in again to get authenticated. This will allow us to bypass HTTPS, HSTS, and all the security that's used by the target account page. For example, if we are trying to get usernames and passwords for Facebook, we will be able to bypass all the security that Facebook uses, because we are just showing a fake Facebook page, so the user will never actually make contact with Facebook. Let's click on Pretty Theft, which will open the tab:

In the preceding screenshot, we can click which account we want to hijack. Let's say we're going with Facebook. We can select what the Backlight will be, so we&apos...