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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

Wireless attacks


One of the distinct advantages to using the Nethunter platform is its size and the ability to be discrete. This is a useful advantage if you are tasked with testing the wireless security of a site while trying to maintain a level of covertness. Sitting in the lobby of a target location with your laptop open and external antenna attached may attract some unwanted attention. Rather, deploying Nethunter on a Nexus 5 phone and having a discrete external antenna hidden behind a newspaper or day planner is a better way to keep a low profile. Another key advantage of the Nethunter platform in conducting wireless penetration testing is the ability to cover a wider area, such as a campus environment, without having to cart around a large laptop.

As we previously discussed in deploying Kali Nethunter, one of the use cases was in wireless penetration testing. In Chapter 12, Wireless Penetration Testing, there are a great many tools and techniques that can be leveraged using Kali Linux...