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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch Your stepping stone to penetration testing

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788622059

Length 564 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scratch

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Zaid Sabih

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up a Lab

3. Linux Basics

4. Network Penetration Testing

5. Pre-Connection Attacks

6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access

7. Post-Connection Attacks

8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security

10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices

11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools

12. Client-Side Attacks

13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering

14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF

15. Attacks Outside the Local Network

16. Post Exploitation

17. Website Penetration Testing

18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering

19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

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File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

This chapter will talk about different vulnerabilities and will explain how to perform them on the Metasploitable machine. A detailed illustration of the each of the scenarios will be covered. At the end of every section, we will also see a quick solution to each vulnerability explained.

The chapter will cover the following topics:

File upload vulnerabilities
Code execution vulnerabilities
Local file inclusion vulnerabilities
Basic mitigation

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Authors (1)

Sabih

Sabih

Zaid Sabih is an ethical hacker, a computer scientist, and the founder and CTO of zSecurity. He has valuable experience in ethical hacking—he started working as a pentester with iSecurity. In 2013, he started teaching his first network hacking course—which received amazing feedback—leading him to publish a number of online ethical hacking courses, each focusing on a specific topic, all of which are dominating ethical hacking. Now, Zaid has more than 300,000 students worldwide.

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