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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Kevin Cardwell
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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By: Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

Security flaws and new hacking techniques emerge overnight – security professionals need to make sure they always have a way to keep . With this practical guide, learn how to build your own virtual pentesting lab environments to practice and develop your security skills. Create challenging environments to test your abilities, and overcome them with proven processes and methodologies used by global penetration testing teams. Get to grips with the techniques needed to build complete virtual machines perfect for pentest training. Construct and attack layered architectures, and plan specific attacks based on the platforms you’re going up against. Find new vulnerabilities for different kinds of systems and networks, and what these mean for your clients. Driven by a proven penetration testing methodology that has trained thousands of testers, Building Virtual Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition will prepare you for participation in professional security teams.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Database assessment


When we are testing, one of the things that we want to treat as a valuable asset is the databases for our clients. This is where the company usually has most of the data that, if compromised, could cost the company a great amount of revenue. There are a number of different databases that are out there. We will concentrate on only three of them: Microsoft SQL, MySQL, and Oracle.

MS SQL

The MS SQL database has provided us with a number of vulnerabilities over the years, but as the versions of the database became more mature, the vulnerabilities decreased dramatically. We will start off by searching to see whether we can find any database exploits in the Exploit DB site for MS SQL. The results of the search are shown in the following screenshot:

As the previous image shows, we do not have a lot of current exploits against the Microsoft SQL server service itself, but the good news for us is there are applications that are running, and that is usually where we will find the exploitability...