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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
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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

Vulnerability research


Understanding the capabilities of a specific software or hardware product may provide a starting point for investigating vulnerabilities that could exist in that product. Conducting vulnerability research is not easy, neither is it a one-click task. Thus, it requires a strong knowledge base with different factors to carry out security analysis. The following are the factors to carry out security analysis:

  • Programming skills: This is a fundamental factor for ethical hackers. Learning the basic concepts and structures that exist with any programming language should grant the tester an imperative advantage when finding vulnerabilities. Apart from basic knowledge of programming languages, you must be prepared to deal with the advanced concepts of processors, system memory, buffers, pointers, data types, registers, and cache. These concepts are implementable in almost any programming language such as C/C++, Python, Perl, and Assembly.

    Note

    To learn the basics of writing an...