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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing
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Overview of this book
This book takes you, as a tester or security practitioner, through the reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation activities used by pentesters.
To start with, you'll use a laboratory environment to validate tools and techniques, along with an application that supports a collaborative approach for pentesting. You'll then progress to passive reconnaissance with open source intelligence and active reconnaissance of the external and internal infrastructure. You'll also focus on how to select, use, customize, and interpret the results from different vulnerability scanners, followed by examining specific routes to the target, which include bypassing physical security and the exfiltration of data using a variety of techniques. You'll discover concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, web services, and embedded devices.
Once you are confident with these topics, you'll learn the practical aspects of attacking user client systems by backdooring with fileless techniques, followed by focusing on the most vulnerable part of the network – directly attacking the end user. By the end of this book, you'll have explored approaches for carrying out advanced pentesting in tightly secured environments, understood pentesting and hacking techniques employed on embedded peripheral devices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Preface
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Goal-Based Penetration Testing
Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance
Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks
Vulnerability Assessment
Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security
Wireless Attacks
Exploiting Web-Based Applications
Client-Side Exploitation
Bypassing Security Controls
Exploitation
Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement
Privilege Escalation
Command and Control
Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking
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