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Learning Penetration Testing with Python

By : Christopher Duffy
Book Image

Learning Penetration Testing with Python

By: Christopher Duffy

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning Penetration Testing with Python
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
Acknowlegements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding today's perimeter


Some networks still have services exposed that they should not, but most of the time, these exposed services rarely present any exploitable risk. The highlighting of these specific examples will stage the mindset shift you need as an assessor who can crack the perimeter of an organization. These are not all-inclusive examples of what you may find exposed to the Internet, but they will highlight the commonalities.

Clear-text protocols

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Telnet are examples of clear-text protocols, which could be exposed to the perimeter and are usually do not present the risk most automated tools rank them. This is unless the server contains critical data or can lead to critical data access, has known Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, or the solution has default or known credentials within it. They should still not be exposed to the Internet, but they are often not as dangerous as most Vulnerability Management Systems (VMS) rank the weakness...