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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By : Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies - Second Edition

By: Yuri Diogenes, Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies, Second Edition is a completely revised new edition of the bestselling book, covering the very latest security threats and defense mechanisms including a detailed overview of Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and an assessment of the current threat landscape, with additional focus on new IoT threats and cryptomining. Cybersecurity starts with the basics that organizations need to know to maintain a secure posture against outside threat and design a robust cybersecurity program. It takes you into the mindset of a Threat Actor to help you better understand the motivation and the steps of performing an actual attack – the Cybersecurity kill chain. You will gain hands-on experience in implementing cybersecurity using new techniques in reconnaissance and chasing a user’s identity that will enable you to discover how a system is compromised, and identify and then exploit the vulnerabilities in your own system. This book also focuses on defense strategies to enhance the security of a system. You will also discover in-depth tools, including Azure Sentinel, to ensure there are security controls in each network layer, and how to carry out the recovery process of a compromised system.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Index

Lab – Hacking Wireless Network/s via Evil Twin Attack

Evil Twin attack is a Wi-Fi access point that "pretends" to be legitimate but is set up to eavesdrop on wireless communications.

The Lab Scenario

As the following figure illustrates, the Threat Actor sets up fake access points with the same name as the "legitimate access point" and the victims are forced out of their access point and on to the Threat Actor's one:

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Figure 27: A scenario where victims are focused out of their legitimate access points and on to a Threat Actor's fake access point

As a change in access point will usually alert the user, most Threat Actors wait until the "mobile" device will try to "re-authenticate" to get an IP address. And this is our lab scenario.

Step 1 – Ensure you have all required hardware and software for the "simulated attack"

These are the ingredients of our attack:

  • Kali Linux, Raspberry Pi...