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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Exploring scanning techniques

There are several scans and scan types that can be performed, including a port scan, a host scan, and even a vulnerability scan, but before we get into that, let’s look at the most basic ways to determine whether a machine is on a network and reachable. One of the first ways to determine whether a machine is reachable is to use the built-in utilities of ping and Traceroute that are included with most operating systems.

Ping

Network engineers learned long ago they needed a way to determine whether remote systems were online. They created the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) as a means to support network troubleshooting. At the core of the ICMP protocol is the utility called Ping. There are several functions of ping; however, the primary ones that most are familiar with are ICMP_ECHO_REQUEST, also known as Type 8, and ICMP_ECHO_REPLY, also known as Type 0. Ping is a very simple utility that can be run by using the ping command, followed...