Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch: Your stepping stone to penetration testing

Learn how to hack systems like black hat hackers and secure them like security experts

Key Features
Understand how computer systems work and their vulnerabilities
Exploit weaknesses and hack into machines to test their security
Learn how to secure systems from hackers
Book Description
This book starts with the basics of ethical hacking, how to practice hacking safely and legally, and how to install and interact with Kali Linux and the Linux terminal. You will explore network hacking, where you will see how to test the security of wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn how to crack the password for any Wi-Fi network (whether it uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and spy on the connected devices.

Moving on, you will discover how to gain access to remote computer systems using client-side and server-side attacks. You will also get the hang of post-exploitation techniques, including remotely controlling and interacting with the systems that you compromised. Towards the end of the book, you will be able to pick up web application hacking techniques. You'll see how to discover, exploit, and prevent a number of website vulnerabilities, such as XSS and SQL injections.

The attacks covered are practical techniques that work against real systems and are purely for educational purposes. At the end of each section, you will learn how to detect, prevent, and secure systems from these attacks.

What you will learn
Understand ethical hacking and the different fields and types of hackers
Set up a penetration testing lab to practice safe and legal hacking
Explore Linux basics, commands, and how to interact with the terminal
Access password-protected networks and spy on connected clients
Use server and client-side attacks to hack and control remote computers
Control a hacked system remotely and use it to hack other systems
Discover, exploit, and prevent a number of web application vulnerabilities such as XSS and SQL injections
Who this book is for
Learning Ethical Hacking from Scratch is for anyone interested in learning how to hack and test the security of systems like professional hackers and security experts.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Setting up The Lab
Linux Basics
Network Penetration Testing
Network Penetration Testing - Pre Connection Attacks
Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access (WEP/WPA/WPA2 Cracking)
Post Connection Attacks
Man-in-the-middle Attacks
Network Penetration Testing - Detection & Security
Gaining Access to Computer Devices
Scanning vulnerabilities using Tools
Client Side Attacks
Client Side Attacks - Social Engineering
Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF
Attacks Outside The Local Network
Post Exploitation
Website Penetration Testing
Website Pentesting - Information Gathering
File Upload, Code Execution & File Inclusion Vulns
SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Website Pentesting - Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP