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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

3.8 (20)
By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Kali – An Introduction, covers installing of Kali with different desktop environments, and tweaking it a bit by installing a few custom tools.

Chapter 2, Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies, covers recipes about collecting subdomains and other information about a target using multiple tools, such as Shodan, and so on.

Chapter 3, Vulnerability Assessment, talks about the methods of hunting for vulnerabilities on the data discovered during information gathering process.

Chapter 4, Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10, is about the exploitation of some of the unique vulnerabilities, such as serialization and server misconfiguration, and so on.

Chapter 5, Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation, focuses on different tools, which can be used to exploit vulnerabilities in a server running different services, such as Redis, MongoDB and so on, in the network.

Chapter 6, Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng, teaching you some new tools to break into wireless networks, as well as using aircrack-ng.

Chapter 7, Password Attacks – The Fault in Their Stars, talks about identifying and cracking different types of hashes.

Chapter 8, Have Shell, Now What? covers different ways of escalating privilege on Linux and Windows-based machines and then getting inside that network using that machine as a gateway.

Chapter 9, Buffer Overflows, discusses exploiting different overflow vulnerabilities, such as SEH, stack-based overflows, egg hunting, and so on.

Chapter 10, Playing with Software-Defined Radios, focusses on exploring the world of frequencies and using different tools to monitor/view data traveling across different frequency bands.

Chapter 11, Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries, talks about how we can install Kali Linux on portable devices, such as Raspberry Pi or a cellphone, and perform pentest using it.

Chapter 12, Writing Reports, covers the basics of writing a good quality report of the pentest activity once it has been performed.

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