Cutting-edge techniques for finding and fixing critical security flaws

Fortify your network and avert digital catastrophe with proven strategies from a team of security experts. Completely updated and featuring 12 new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fourth Edition explains the enemy’s current weapons, skills, and tactics and offers field-tested remedies, case studies, and ready-to-deploy testing labs. Find out how hackers gain access, overtake network devices, script and inject malicious code, and plunder Web applications and browsers. Android-based exploits, reverse engineering techniques, andcyber law are thoroughly covered in this state-of-the-art resource.

• Build and launch spoofing exploits with Ettercap and Evilgrade


• Induce error conditions and crash software using fuzzers


• Hack Cisco routers, switches, and network hardware


• Use advanced reverse engineering to exploit Windows and Linux software


• Bypass Windows Access Control and memory protection schemes


• Scan for flaws in Web applications using Fiddler and the x5 plugin


• Learn the use-after-free technique used in recent zero days


• Bypass Web authentication via MySQL type conversion and MD5 injection attacks


• Inject your shellcode into a browser's memory using the latest Heap Spray techniques


• Hijack Web browsers with Metasploit and the BeEF Injection Framework


• Neutralize ransomware before it takes control of your desktop


• Dissect Android malware with JEB and DAD decompilers


• Find one-day vulnerabilities with binary diffing