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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

Utilizing the search engine


Aside from routing and domain information, Kali Linux has other tools that can provide a great deal of OSINT to penetration testers. These tools act as search engines that have the ability to cull a variety of resources such as Google or social networking sites for e-mail addresses, documents, and domain information. One of the advantages of using these tools is that they do not directly search websites, but rather use other search engines to provide OSINT. This limits the penetration tester's fingerprints on a target system.

Some of these tools are built in to Kali Linux and others have to be installed. The following present a good subset of the tools that will aid you in the vast majority of information collection cases.

theharvester

theharvester is an information gathering tool that has the ability to search the Internet for e-mail addresses, domains, and hostnames. As of version 2.6, the harvester is able to gather open source information from the following...