Hacking Tricks, Methods, and Offensive Strategies: Digital reconnaissance, network enumeration, and system exploitation strategies (English Edition)
Author:Dale Meredith (Author)
Publisher finelybook 出版社: BPB Publications
Publication Date 出版日期: 2025-07-15
Language 语言: English
Print Length 页数: 226 pages
ISBN-10: 9365897009
ISBN-13: 9789365897005
Book Description
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.
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.
Table of Contents
1. Setting Some Ground Rules
2. Reconnaissance Tools
3. Diving Deeper into Your Targets
4. Scanning Tools and Techniques
5. Further Scanning and Enumerating the Targets
6. Techniques for Pwning Targets
7. Wi-Fi Tools
8. Now to Maintain Access
9. Covering Your Tracks
10. Implementing the Learning
