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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

Bypassing authentication

There are various bypassing authentication methods such as capturing tokens and replaying them, client-side piggybacking, and cross-site request forgery. Some common tools include the Burp Suite and THC-Hydra for brute forcing attacks for password cracking that we'll briefly consider. THC-Hydra is an effectively fast, free, and legal login cracker developed for cyber security researchers and professionals to show how easy and vulnerable it is bypass certain authentication. It does require for certain parameters to be met such as the address IP, URL, form type, a username field, a password field, and failure response. We'll also be using the Burp Suite as a proxy, for example, but you can use any. You can launch it from a Linux Kali and enable the proxy and go under the "Intercept" tab to turn it on.

Now go ahead into your Kali and open a browser and click on Edit | Preferences...

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