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 13 new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Fifth Edition explains the enemy's current weapons, skills, and tactics and offers field-tested remedies, case studies, and ready-to-try 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, and cyber law are thoroughly covered in this state-of-the-art resource. And the new topic of exploiting the Internet of things is introduced in this edition.

*Build and launch spoofing exploits with Ettercap

*Induce error conditions and crash software using fuzzers

*Use advanced reverse engineering to exploit Windows and Linux software

*Bypass Windows Access Control and memory protection schemes

*Exploit web applications with Padding Oracle Attacks

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

*Hijack web browsers with advanced XSS attacks

*Understand ransomware and how it takes control of your desktop

*Dissect Android malware with JEB and DAD decompilers

*Find one-day vulnerabilities with binary diffing

*Exploit wireless systems with Software Defined Radios (SDR)

*Exploit Internet of things devices

*Dissect and exploit embedded devices

*Understand bug bounty programs

*Deploy next-generation honeypots

*Dissect ATM malware and analyze common ATM attacks

*Learn the business side of ethical hacking