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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Lab – Reconnaissance

Now that we have been introduced to footprinting and reconnaissance, we need to reinforce these concepts. The following lab covers several of the areas discussed in the chapter, including Google dorks, financial reports, and robots.txt.

You have been contracted by Home Depot for a reconnaissance and footprinting project. You have been asked to do the following operations and report back your findings for a larger report:

Perform an nslookup of homedepot.com and record the IP addresses returned. Record your answer here.
Do a WHOIS lookup for homedepot.com by the IP addresses returned in the previous question. Record your answer here.
Perform the same operations as in question 2 using domaintools.com. Record your answer here.
Compare the returned results from questions 2 and 3 and record the differences you find, if any.
Perform a Google search of the URL homedepot.com. Record the first five links. Record your answer here and identify...