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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Zaid Sabih
5 (1)
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

Maintaining access by using simple methods

In all of the examples that we've seen so far, we would lose our connection to the target computer as soon as the target user restarted the computer, because we used a normal backdoor, and once the computer restarted, that backdoor would be terminated, the process would be terminated, and we would lose our connection. In this section, we will discuss the methods that will allow us to maintain our access to the target computer, so that we can come back at any time and regain full control over the computer. There are a number of ways of doing this. The first one is by using Veil-Evasion; we can use an HTTP service or a TCP service instead of the HTTP backdoor that we created.

Let's look at an example. If we use Veil-Evasion and run the list command, we will see that at the numbers 6 and 8, we have service backdoors, as shown in...