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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Nethunter icons


Once Nethunter has been installed on your device, there are two icons that are installed as part of the image. You will find these in the Apps Menu. You will be utilizing these icons quite extensively, so I recommend you move them to the top-level screen. The first icon is the Kali Nethunter menu. This menu includes configuration settings and tools that are commonly used in penetration testing. First, click on the Nethunter icon:

You will be brought to a home screen with a list of tools, along with some of the configuration setting menus. The one menu that we want to examine now is the Kali Services menu. This menu allows you to configure the different services available on Nethunter without having to use the command line:

In this menu, you can configure a number of services to start on boot or to toggle on and off depending on your specific requirements. Two specific services that we have covered in other chapters include the Apache Webserver and the Metasploit service. Both...