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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788295970

Length 190 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Metasploit

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Sagar Rahalkar

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting up Your Environment

3. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration

4. Information Gathering with Metasploit

5. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit

6. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit

7. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit

8. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics

9. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage

10. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development

Password sniffing

Password sniffing is a special type of auxiliary module that listens on the network interface and looks for passwords sent over various protocols such as FTP, IMAP, POP3, and SMB. It also provides an option to import previously dumped network traffic in .pcap format and look for credentials within.

Its auxiliary module name is auxiliary/sniffer/psnuffle, and it can be seen in the following screenshot:

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Authors (1)

Rahalkar

Sagar Rahalkar is a seasoned information security professional having more than 10 years of comprehensive experience in various verticals of IS. His domain expertise is mainly into breach detection, cyber crime investigations, digital forensics, application security, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, compliance for mandates and regulations, IT GRC, and much more. He holds a masters degree in computer science and several industry-recognized certifications such as Certified Cyber Crime Investigator, Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Security Analyst, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, IBM certified Specialist-Rational AppScan, Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and PRINCE2. He has been closely associated with Indian law enforcement agencies for more than 3 years dealing with digital crime investigations and related training and received several awards and appreciations from senior officials of the police and defense organizations in India. Sagar has also been a reviewer and author for various books and online publications.

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