Ethical Hacking: A Hands-On Introduction to Breaking in

Ethical Hacking is a comprehensive guide that takes you from the basics of capturing network traffic to crafting sophisticated trojans. Through hands-on labs, you'll explore essential skills for penetration testing, security research, and malware analysis. You'll start with fundamental techniques like ARP spoofing and progress to advanced topics such as fuzzing for vulnerabilities, crafting rootkits, and exploiting websites with SQL injection. The book also covers the use of professional tools like Metasploit and Mimikatz, and teaches you to write your own tools in Python. /n/n Developed with feedback from cybersecurity students, Ethical Hacking addresses contemporary issues in the field and prepares you for a career in penetration testing. You'll gain a foundation in relevant computing technologies, learn how advanced fuzzers work, understand internet traffic encryption, and explore the mechanisms of nation-state malware. Most importantly, you'll learn to think like an ethical hacker, analyzing systems and creatively gaining access to them.