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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from   Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch Your stepping stone to penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622059
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zaid Sabih Zaid Sabih
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Lab 3. Linux Basics 4. Network Penetration Testing 5. Pre-Connection Attacks 6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access 7. Post-Connection Attacks 8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security 10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices 11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools 12. Client-Side Attacks 13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering 14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF 15. Attacks Outside the Local Network 16. Post Exploitation 17. Website Penetration Testing 18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering 19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities 20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities 21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Securing network from attacks

In order to prevent our network from preceding cracking methods explained throughout the chapter, we'll need to access the settings page for your router. Each router has a web page where user can modify the settings for the router, and it's usually at the IP of the router. First we're going get the IP of my computer or my device, and we are going to run ifconfig wlan0 command; as seen in the following screenshot, the highlighted part is the IP of the computer:

Now open the browser, and navigate to 192.168.0.1; for this example, the IP of the computer is 25. Usually, the IP of the router is the first IP of the subnet. At the moment, it's 192.168.0.0, and we are just going to add the number 1, because that's the first IP in the subnet, and that will take us to the router settings page. At the settings page, it'll asking...

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