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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

Installing Windows

The last machine that we're going to talk about installing is the Windows machine. This is just a normal Windows machine, with Windows 10. This is going to be another victim, and we are going to see how we can hack it. Again, we installed Metasploitable because it has a large number of vulnerabilities, and it's designed to be hacked into. It has a Terminal that is not very user friendly, and it doesn't really mimic a normal user. The Windows machine, on the other hand, will be used for scenarios that mimic a normal user, a user just using Windows to browse the internet or do whatever normal people do on their machines.

So, Microsoft has actually released free versions, or free virtual machines, that you can download and use. These are available on Microsoft's website. You can download them at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft...