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