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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a vulnerability that can be exploited, which are SQL injections. This SQLi can be used to perform a wide range of very dangerous attacks on the databases of a machine and the server. First, we saw how we can discover these injections. We also learned how we can log in to a system using a URLall we had to do was launch a few lines of code in which we had to mention the password and username. Then, we saw how to bypass SQLi without using login credentials. We even used the GET method to discover SQLi. After that, we learned how to fire basic select statements on a database. We even learned how to use the sqlmap tool, which is capable of performing a lot of things, but we only covered the basics in this chapter. Finally, we covered methods to prevent SQLi. In the next chapter, we are going to exploit cross-site scripting vulnerabilities...