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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch Your stepping stone to penetration testing

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788622059

Length 564 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Scratch

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Zaid Sabih

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up a Lab

3. Linux Basics

4. Network Penetration Testing

5. Pre-Connection Attacks

6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access

7. Post-Connection Attacks

8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security

10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices

11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools

12. Client-Side Attacks

13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering

14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF

15. Attacks Outside the Local Network

16. Post Exploitation

17. Website Penetration Testing

18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering

19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities

20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools

In this chapter, we will see how to install MSFC, learn about the scanning process, and finally look at the analysis of the report. We will also be installing a tool called Nexpose, which will scan our system for vulnerabilities. We will also learn to generate reports and analyze them.

This chapter covers the following topics:

Installing MSFC
MSFC scan
MSFC analysis
Installing Nexpose
Running Nexpose
Nexpose analysis

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Authors (1)

Sabih

Sabih

Zaid Sabih is an ethical hacker, a computer scientist, and the founder and CTO of zSecurity. He has valuable experience in ethical hacking—he started working as a pentester with iSecurity. In 2013, he started teaching his first network hacking course—which received amazing feedback—leading him to publish a number of online ethical hacking courses, each focusing on a specific topic, all of which are dominating ethical hacking. Now, Zaid has more than 300,000 students worldwide.

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