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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Book Image

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Third Edition

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By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Third Edition will bring you up to speed with the key aspects of threat assessment and security hygiene, the current threat landscape and its challenges, and how to maintain a strong security posture. In this carefully revised new edition, you will learn about the Zero Trust approach and the initial Incident Response process. You will gradually become familiar with Red Team tactics, where you will learn basic syntax for commonly used tools to perform the necessary operations. You will also learn how to apply newer Red Team techniques with powerful tools. Simultaneously, Blue Team tactics are introduced to help you defend your system from complex cyber-attacks. This book provides a clear, in-depth understanding of attack/defense methods as well as patterns to recognize irregular behavior within your organization. Finally, you will learn how to analyze your network and address malware, while becoming familiar with mitigation and threat detection techniques. By the end of this cybersecurity book, you will have discovered the latest tools to enhance the security of your system, learned about the security controls you need, and understood how to carry out each step of the incident response process.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Summary

Armed with enough information from the reconnaissance phase, hackers will have an easier time finding the right attacks to use to compromise systems. This chapter has looked at several methods that hackers are utilizing to attack computing devices.

In many instances, vulnerabilities have been primarily targeted to allow hackers to breach into otherwise secured systems. Zero-day vulnerabilities have been particularly effective against many targets. These are vulnerabilities that have no existing patches thus making it significantly harder for any targeted system to be secured. There has been an alarming number of zero-day vulnerabilities discovered due to the efforts of security researchers, hackers, and state agencies to discover exploitable flaws in systems.

This chapter also looked at the WhatsApp vulnerability of May 2019, which allowed hackers to install spyware on devices using a simple voice call. All the hackers had to do was manipulate data packets to carry...