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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Hunting for SSL flaws


Most of the web applications today use SSL to communicate with the server. The sslscan is a great tool to check SSL for flaws or misconfigurations.

How to do it...

To learn about sslscan follow the given steps:

  1. We will look at the help manual to see the various options the tool has:
sslscan -h  

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

  1. To run the tool against a host we type the following:
sslscan host.com:port 

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

See also

  • The A tale of a bleeding heart recipe from Chapter 5, Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation

TLSSLed is also an alternative we can use in Kali to perform checks on SSL.