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Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Second Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

Metasploit is a popular penetration testing framework that has one of the largest exploit databases around. This book will show you exactly how to prepare yourself against the attacks you will face every day by simulating real-world possibilities. We start by reminding you about the basic functionalities of Metasploit and its use in the most traditional ways. You’ll get to know about the basics of programming Metasploit modules as a refresher, and then dive into carrying out exploitation as well building and porting exploits of various kinds in Metasploit. In the next section, you’ll develop the ability to perform testing on various services such as SCADA, databases, IoT, mobile, tablets, and many more services. After this training, we jump into real-world sophisticated scenarios where performing penetration tests are a challenge. With real-life case studies, we take you on a journey through client-side attacks using Metasploit and various scripts built on the Metasploit framework. By the end of the book, you will be trained specifically on time-saving techniques using Metasploit.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Metasploit
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

The fundamentals of SCADA


Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is required to control activities in dams, power stations, oil refineries, large server control services, and so on.

SCADA systems are built for highly specific tasks, such as controlling the level of dispatched water, controlling the gas lines, controlling the electricity power grid to control power in a particular city, and various other operations.

The fundamentals of ICS and its components

SCADA systems are Industrial Control System (ICS) systems, which are used in critical environments or where life is at stake, if anything goes wrong. ICS are the systems that are used in large industries, where they are responsible for controlling various processes, such as mixing two chemicals in a definite ratio, inserting carbon dioxide in a particular environment, putting the proper amount of water in the boiler, and so on.

The components of such SCADA systems are as follows:

Component

Use

Remote Terminal Unit (RTU...