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KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

By : Justin Hutchens
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KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

KALI LINUX NETWORK SCANNING COOKBOOK

4.7 (20)
By: Justin Hutchens

Overview of this book

Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook is intended for information security professionals and casual security enthusiasts alike. It will provide the foundational principles for the novice reader but will also introduce scripting techniques and in-depth analysis for the more advanced audience. Whether you are brand new to Kali Linux or a seasoned veteran, this book will aid in both understanding and ultimately mastering many of the most powerful and useful scanning techniques in the industry. It is assumed that the reader has some basic security testing experience.
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Chapter 6. Denial of Service

Any time you make resources publically accessible over the Internet or even to a small community over an internal network, it is important to consider the risk of denial of service (DoS) attacks. DoS attacks can be frustrating and can be very costly at times. Worst of all, these threats can often be some of the most difficult ones to mitigate. To be able to properly assess the threat to your network and information resources, one must understand the types of DoS threats that exist and the trends associated with them. This chapter will include the following recipes to evaluate DoS threats:

  • Fuzz testing to identify buffer overflows
  • Remote FTP service buffer overflow DoS
  • Smurf DoS attack
  • DNS amplification DoS attack
  • SNMP amplification DoS attack
  • NTP amplification DoS attack
  • SYN flood DoS attack
  • Sock stress DoS attack
  • DoS attacks with Nmap NSE
  • DoS attacks with Metasploit
  • DoS attacks with the exploit database

Prior to addressing each of these listed recipes individually...

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