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

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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 of Web Servers

Web servers are one of those things defenders are always trying to stay one step ahead of and attackers look for first. Web servers and services are pretty common within organizations and tend to show up in one of three ways. The first is with organizations’ intranet as a place to distribute company information and provide links to other resources. The second is the internet, with not only websites but web services and portals for the use of clients. This may contain public company information or, depending on the type of organization, it may provide systems for order processing or account information. The third is through applications and services; this might be an application that provides a web portal to access information, or it may even be a cloud-based service. This will be explored in greater detail in Chapter 14.

Web servers and services, by themselves, do not do much; however, it is when interactivity with users is enabled that the...