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Reconnaissance for Ethical Hackers

You're reading from   Reconnaissance for Ethical Hackers Focus on the starting point of data breaches and explore essential steps for successful pentesting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630639
Length 430 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Glen D. Singh Glen D. Singh
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Reconnaissance and Footprinting
2. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Reconnaissance FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up a Reconnaissance Lab 4. Chapter 3: Understanding Passive Reconnaissance 5. Chapter 4: Domain and DNS Intelligence 6. Chapter 5: Organizational Infrastructure Intelligence 7. Chapter 6: Imagery, People, and Signals Intelligence 8. Part 2: Scanning and Enumeration
9. Chapter 7: Working with Active Reconnaissance 10. Chapter 8: Performing Vulnerability Assessments 11. Chapter 9: Delving into Website Reconnaissance 12. Chapter 10: Implementing Recon Monitoring and Detection Systems 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Wireshark for ethical hackers

Wireshark is a popular and very powerful network protocol analyzer that’s commonly used by both networking and cybersecurity professionals in the industry to identify networking issues and threats within an organization’s network. Wireshark enables professionals to capture network packets and perform analysis to gain better insights into what’s happening in the network by viewing the contents of each packet or frame.

As you may know, the Network Interface Card (NIC) of a sender device is responsible for converting data into a signal that can be transported over a certain form of media, such as electrical signals for copper wires, light signals for fiber optics, and radio frequency for wireless communication. Wireshark can capture these signal types and convert them into human-readable language, helping us to better analyze network traffic.

Wireshark helps ethical hackers to detect security vulnerabilities within network-based...

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