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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

Discovering SQLi

Now, let's try to discover some SQL injections. We need to browse through our target and try to break each page. Whenever we see a textbox or a parameter on the form, such as page.php, then something is equal to something; try to inject stuff there, try to use a single quote, try to use an and, or the orderby statement to break the page and make it look different. For example, we will be using the Mutillidae vulnerable website from Metasploit. We are going to go into the Login/Register page first, as we can see in the following screenshot, and it will ask us to log in. Now, the site is registered with your name so you can just click on Please register here and register:

After registering, go to the login page. At the moment, we are using the example of injecting into textboxes, so we can try to inject into the Name and into the Password textboxes. For example...