Название: Hacking Tricks, Methods, and Offensive Strategies: Digital reconnaissance, network enumeration, and system exploitation strategies
Автор: Dale Meredith
Издательство: BPB Publications
Год: 2025
Страниц: 327
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 20.4 MB

Understanding how systems are secured and how they can be breached is critical for robust cybersecurity in an interconnected digital world. The book offers a clear, practical roadmap for mastering ethical hacking techniques, enabling you to identify and fix vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them.

This book guides you through the entire hacking lifecycle, starting with fundamental rules and engagement phases, then moving into extensive reconnaissance using public data, search engines, and social networks to gather intelligence. You will learn active network scanning for live systems, port identification, and vulnerability detection, along with advanced enumeration techniques like NetBIOS, SNMP, and DNS. It also proceeds to explain practical system, exploitation, covering password cracking, social engineering, and specialized tools. It also includes dedicated sections on Wi-Fi network hacks, followed by crucial post-exploitation strategies for maintaining access and meticulously covering your tracks to remain undetected.

Most hacking tools are designed for use by professionals, ethical hackers, and penetration testers. However, many of these tools can be used by malicious actors to gain unauthorized access to systems and data. In this book, we will explore various hacking tools and techniques that can be used for both good and bad purposes. By understanding how these tools work, you will be better equipped to defend against their malicious use. This book can also be used as a reference guide for security professionals during an engagement. In the following chapters, we will cover topics like network scanning, password cracking, exploitation tools, social engineering techniques, and much more. By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of a wide variety of hacking tools and how they can be used to attack systems.

Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd. Kali is pre-installed with over 600 penetration-testing programs, including nmap (a port scanner), Wireshark (a packet analyzer), John the Ripper (a password cracker), Aircrack-ng (a software suite for penetration-testing wireless LANs), Burp Suite (an intercepting proxy), OWASP ZAP (a security scanner), and the list goes on. It is also a supported platform of the Metasploit Project's Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine. We will talk more about Metasploit later in this book.

This book helps you to properly protect data and systems by means of obvious explanations, practical recipes, and an emphasis on offensive tactics. Perfect for novices or experienced professionals with a networking background, it is your go-to tool for mastering cybersecurity and keeping hackers at bay, because slowing them down is the name of the game.

What you will learn:
- Use Nmap to scan networks and spot vulnerabilities in a quick manner.
- Crack passwords with tools like Hashcat and John.
- Exploit systems using Metasploit to test your defenses.
- Secure Wi-Fi by hacking it with Aircrack-ng first.
- Think like a hacker to predict and block attacks.
- Learn maintaining system access by hiding tracks and creating backdoors.

Who this book is for:
This book is for IT administrators and security professionals aiming to master hacking techniques for improved cyber defenses. To fully engage with these strategies, you should be familiar with fundamental networking and hacking technology concepts.

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