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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies Counter modern threats and employ state-of-the-art tools and techniques to protect your organization against cybercriminals

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838827793

Length 634 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Bash

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Authors (2):

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Yuri Diogenes

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Security Posture FREE CHAPTER

2. Incident Response Process

3. What is a Cyber Strategy?

4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain

5. Reconnaissance

6. Compromising the System

7. Chasing a User's Identity

8. Lateral Movement

9. Privilege Escalation

10. Security Policy

11. Network Segmentation

12. Active Sensors

13. Threat Intelligence

14. Investigating an Incident

15. Recovery Process

16. Vulnerability Management

17. Log Analysis

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

19. Index

Lab 3: HackTheBox

Scenario:

HackTheBox is a very good pen-testing lab website, which will help you to improve your Red/Blue Teaming skills. Now let's go the website and try to register. It's free!

https://www.hackthebox.eu

Try to signup to the website.
As soon as you browse the website you will see there is no signup page. If you spend enough time on the site or use the Google hacking techniques that we covered earlier in our book, then you might find yourself receiving this URL:
https://www.hackthebox.eu/invite
You will be asked to provide an invitation code. How are you going to get it? Of course, you need to hack the web site. It's legal, don't worry.
Figure 66: Hackthebox homepage
One of the first things to do is to see if there is any script running that can be bypassed. Right click the page and inspect the elements.
You should see /js/inviteapi.min.js
Figure 67: Inspecting the Hackthebox elements
Below is the image zoomed in:
Figure 68: Zooming...

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Authors (2)

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes

Yuri Diogenes has been working at Microsoft since 2006, and currently he is a Principal PM Manager where he manages a Team of PMs for Microsoft CNAPP Solution, Defender for Cloud. Yuri is also a Professor at EC-Council University and Trine University. Yuri has a Master of Science in Cybersecurity Intelligence and Forensics Investigation from Utica College, and he is currently working on his PhD in Cybersecurity Leadership from Capitol Technology University. Yuri has published a total of 32 books, mostly covering information security and Microsoft technologies. Yuri also holds many industry certifications, such as CISSP, E|CND, E|CEH, E|CSA, E|CHFI, E|CTIA, CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Network+, CASP, and MITRE ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence.

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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya

Dr. Erdal Ozkaya is named among the Top 50 Technology Leaders by CIO Online & IDC. He is a Chief Cybersecurity Strategist and CISO at Xcitium (Comodo Cybersecurity), and a professor at Charles Sturt University. His expertise spans end-to-end IT solutions, management, communications, and innovation. He's a well-known public speaker, an award-winning technical expert, author, and creator of certifications (courseware and exams) for prestigious organizations such as Microsoft, EC Council, CertNexus, and other expert-level vendors with an esteemed list of credits to his name. He is working with an ardent passion for raising cyber awareness and leveraging new, innovative approaches.

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