You're reading from Hands-On Ethical Hacking Tactics Strategies, tools, and techniques for effective cyber defense

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801810081

Length 464 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Ethical Hacking

Author (1):

Shane Hartman

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Information Gathering and Reconnaissance

2. Chapter 1: Ethical Hacking Concepts FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Ethical Hacking Footprinting and Reconnaissance

4. Chapter 3: Ethical Hacking Scanning and Enumeration

5. Chapter 4: Ethical Hacking Vulnerability Assessments and Threat Modeling

6. Part 2:Hacking Tools and Techniques

7. Chapter 5: Hacking the Windows Operating System

8. Chapter 6: Hacking the Linux Operating System

9. Chapter 7: Ethical Hacking of Web Servers

10. Chapter 8: Hacking Databases

11. Chapter 9: Ethical Hacking Protocol Review

12. Chapter 10: Ethical Hacking for Malware Analysis

13. Part 3:Defense, Social Engineering, IoT, and Cloud

14. Chapter 11: Incident Response and Threat Hunting

15. Chapter 12: Social Engineering

16. Chapter 13: Ethical Hacking of the Internet of Things

17. Chapter 14: Ethical Hacking in the Cloud

18. Index

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Ethical Hacking Protocol Review

Protocols are often discussed or represented as a single item or thing that is part of networking and how data gets from one place to another. For instance, Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is two separate protocols that are put together to get data from point A to point B. There are other protocols designed to support specific functions and communications, but nothing comes close to what TCP/IP does for communication and the overall operation of networks and the internet as a whole. So, why are we covering protocols, and what do they have to do with ethical hacking? Most people think hacking is about passwords or application flaws, but protocols can be abused too. Sometimes, their basic behavior allows attackers to get the information they are looking for. In this chapter, we will dig deeper to see how protocol abuse is something to understand and be aware of.

We will cover the following main topics in this chapter:

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