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Metasploit Bootcamp

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Product type Book
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788297134
Pages 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Getting Started with Metasploit 2. Identifying and Scanning Targets 3. Exploitation and Gaining Access 4. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 5. Testing Services with Metasploit 6. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 7. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit

Exploiting browsers for fun and profit

Web browsers are used primarily for surfing the Web. However, an outdated web browser can lead to the compromise of the entire system. Clients may never use the preinstalled web browser and choose the one based on their preference. However, the default preinstalled web browser can still lead to various attacks on the system. Exploiting a browser by finding vulnerabilities in the browser components is known as browser-based exploitation.

For more information on Firefox vulnerabilities, refer to http://www.cvedetails.com/product/3264/Mozilla-Firefox.html?vendor_id=452.

For Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, refer to http://www.cvedetails.com/product/9900/Microsoft-Internet-Explorer.html?vendor_id=26.

The browser autopwn attack

Metasploit offers browser autopwn, an automated attack module that tests various browsers for weaknesses and exploits them. To understand the inner workings of this module, let us discuss the technology behind the attack.

The technology...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Nipun Jaswal
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Nipun Jaswal is an international cybersecurity author and an award-winning IT security researcher with more than a decade of experience in penetration testing, Red Team assessments, vulnerability research, RF, and wireless hacking. He is presently the Director of Cybersecurity Practices at BDO India. Nipun has trained and worked with multiple law enforcement agencies on vulnerability research and exploit development. He has also authored numerous articles and exploits that can be found on popular security databases, such as PacketStorm and exploit-db. Please feel free to contact him at @nipunjaswal.
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