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Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By : Nipun Jaswal
Book Image

Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

By: Nipun Jaswal

Overview of this book

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 databases, Cloud environment, IoT, mobile, tablets, and similar 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 (14 chapters)

Fundamentals of testing SCADA systems

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a composition of software along with hardware elements that are 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 electric power grid to manage 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. The industrial control systems are the...