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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation 2. Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Understanding spoofing attacks

What's the best way to get in between a conversation when it is not possible to physically be in line? Well, that's with spoofing attacks of course. Spoofing attacks are a fundamental requirement for attacks where you are in between a conversation or man-in-the-middle as it's often referred to. Spoofing attacks, in their simplest form, are you impersonating something else in order to get in the middle of that conversation or all the conversations if you impersonate the default gateway.

To accomplish this task, we will be performing ARP spoofing. This will allow us to tell the host to send its traffic to us as the default gateway and to tell the default gateway to send traffic to that host to us. This way, we can place ourselves in the middle of that conversation. Once we are in the middle of that conversation, we can not only learn...

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