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Glen D. Singh
Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Performing client-side attacks

The Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) is a security auditing tool that's used by penetration testers to assess the security posture and discover vulnerabilities of systems and networks. It allows you to hook up a client's web browser and exploit it by injecting client-side attacks. Hooking is the process of getting a victim to click on a web page that contains custom/malicious JavaScript code. This JavaScript code is then processed by the victim's web browser and binds their web browser to the BeEF server running on your Kali Linux machine, allowing the penetration tester to control the victim's system and perform various client-side attacks.

In this section, you will learn how to use BeEF to perform a social engineering client-side attack, hook a victim's web browser, and control their system without their knowledge. For this exercise, you will need to use Kali Linux and one of the Windows 10 Enterprise virtual machines...

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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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