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Applied Network Security

You're reading from   Applied Network Security Proven tactics to detect and defend against all kinds of network attack

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786466273
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael McLafferty Michael McLafferty
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Warun Levesque Warun Levesque
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Arthur Salmon Arthur Salmon
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Network Security FREE CHAPTER 2. Sniffing the Network 3. How to Crack Wi-Fi Passwords 4. Creating a RAT Using Msfvenom 5. Veil Framework 6. Social Engineering Toolkit and Browser Exploitation 7. Advanced Network Attacks 8. Passing and Cracking the Hash 9. SQL Injection 10. Scapy 11. Web Application Exploits 12. Evil Twins and Spoofing 13. Injectable Devices 14. The Internet of Things 15. Detection Systems 16. Advance Wireless Security Lab Using the Wi-Fi Pineapple Nano/Tetra 17. Offensive Security and Threat Hunting

Browser exploitation with BeEF

BeEF is a powerful tool that exploits web and browser-based vulnerabilities such as client-side and XSS attacks. With BeEF you can put up a link that when a user clicks on it, it will hook that user's browsers into the frameworks server. From there you can run malware on the hooked browser's IP address and use it to invade another host on the same network, dispersing the malware effectively.

When you launch BeEF from Kali Linux, the default credentials for both the username and password is beef:

Browser hijacking

The goal with BeEF is to hook a browser. We'll need a victim's browser to visit a vulnerable website. The hooked browser then communicates to commands sent from the BeEF server. Then the hooked browser...

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