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Ethical Hacking Workshop

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Product type Book

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804612590

Pages 220 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (2):

Rishalin Pillay

Mohammed Abutheraa

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:Network Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Networking Primer

3. Chapter 2: Capturing and Analyzing Network Traffic

4. Chapter 3: Cryptography Primer

5. Part 2: Breaking and Entering

6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance

7. Chapter 5: Scanning

8. Chapter 6: Gaining Access

9. Part 3: Total Immersion

10. Chapter 7: Post-Exploitation

11. Index

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Vulnerability scanning

Vulnerability scanning is a crucial phase in an ethical hacking engagement. This phase aims to discover vulnerabilities that could be exploited for you to obtain initial access, elevate your privileges, perform remote code execution, and much more.

Vulnerability scanning tools are useful because of how they can automate all possible security checks, especially across a large number of systems and networks. On the other hand, it is important to understand their limitations:

These tools only look for known vulnerabilities
These tools are flat – no intelligence is usually used by threat hackers to understand what is happening in the network thoroughly

There are several vulnerability scanners on the market today, many of which are costly and targeted at enterprises. In this section, we will focus on open source vulnerability scanners that you can run within Kali Linux.

As we have worked with Nmap in the previous section and stated...

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Authors (2)

Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.

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Mohammed Abutheraa

Mohammed Abutheraa is Cybersecurity specialist who has over 15 years of experience in IT security, risk management, security infrastructure, and technology implementation in both private and public sector environments. He worked as Incident Response and Remediation Advisor and supported customers remediating against major incidents in the last years. He has experience in Threat Intelligence and Proactive Services like Vulnerability Assessments and Red / Purple Teaming experiences.

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