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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

By : Glen D. Singh
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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

4.8 (30)
By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

Embark on an exciting journey into the world of Kali Linux – the central hub for advanced penetration testing. Honing your pentesting skills and exploiting vulnerabilities or conducting advanced penetration tests on wired and wireless enterprise networks, Kali Linux empowers cybersecurity professionals. In its latest third edition, this book goes further to guide you on how to setup your labs and explains breaches using enterprise networks. This book is designed for newcomers and those curious about penetration testing, this guide is your fast track to learning pentesting with Kali Linux 2024.x. Think of this book as your stepping stone into real-world situations that guides you through lab setups and core penetration testing concepts. As you progress in the book you’ll explore the toolkit of vulnerability assessment tools in Kali Linux, where gathering information takes the spotlight. You'll learn how to find target systems, uncover device security issues, exploit network weaknesses, control operations, and even test web applications. The journey ends with understanding complex web application testing techniques, along with industry best practices. As you finish this captivating exploration of the Kali Linux book, you'll be ready to tackle advanced enterprise network testing – with newfound skills and confidence.
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Index

Exploiting WPA3 Attacks

At the time of writing, WPA3 is the latest wireless security standard in the wireless networking industry, having been released in 2018. As such, it has resolved various security concerns that existed in its predecessor, WPA2. In the previous sections, you discovered various types of attacks that a penetration tester can use to compromise an IEEE 802.11 wireless network using the WPA2 wireless security standard.

WPA2 wireless networks are highly vulnerable to wireless de-authentication attacks, which allows a threat actor or a penetration tester to send de-authentication frames to any wireless clients that are associated with a specific access point. However, WPA3 is not susceptible to de-authentication attacks because WPA3 uses Protected Management Frame (PMF), unlike its predecessors.

The following comparison will help you quickly understand the new features and technologies of WPA3:

  • Opportunistic Wireless Encryption (OWE) is an implementation...

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