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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 3: HackTheBox

Scenario:

HackTheBox is a very good pen-testing lab website, which will help you to improve your Red/Blue Teaming skills. Now let's go the website and try to register. It's free!

https://www.hackthebox.eu

  1. Try to signup to the website.

    As soon as you browse the website you will see there is no signup page. If you spend enough time on the site or use the Google hacking techniques that we covered earlier in our book, then you might find yourself receiving this URL:

    https://www.hackthebox.eu/invite

  2. You will be asked to provide an invitation code. How are you going to get it? Of course, you need to hack the web site. It's legal, don't worry.

    Figure 66: Hackthebox homepage

  3. One of the first things to do is to see if there is any script running that can be bypassed. Right click the page and inspect the elements.

    You should see /js/inviteapi.min.js

    Figure 67: Inspecting the Hackthebox elements

    Below is the image zoomed in:

    Figure 68: Zooming...