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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Michael Hixon, Justin Hutchens
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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Michael Hixon, Justin Hutchens

Overview of this book

With the ever-increasing amount of data flowing in today’s world, information security has become vital to any application. This is where Kali Linux comes in. Kali Linux focuses mainly on security auditing and penetration testing. This step-by-step cookbook on network scanning trains you in important scanning concepts based on version 2016.2. It will enable you to conquer any network environment through a range of network scanning techniques and will also equip you to script your very own tools. Starting with the fundamentals of installing and managing Kali Linux, this book will help you map your target with a wide range of network scanning tasks, including discovery, port scanning, fingerprinting, and more. You will learn how to utilize the arsenal of tools available in Kali Linux to conquer any network environment. The book offers expanded coverage of the popular Burp Suite and has new and updated scripts for automating scanning and target exploitation. You will also be shown how to identify remote services, how to assess security risks, and how various attacks are performed. You will cover the latest features of Kali Linux 2016.2, which includes the enhanced Sparta tool and many other exciting updates. This immersive guide will also encourage the creation of personally scripted tools and the skills required to create them.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Introduction

Prior to addressing each of these listed recipes individually, we should address some of the underlying principles and understand how they relate to the DoS attacks that will be discussed in this chapter. The DoS attacks that we will discuss in the recipes that follow could all be categorized as buffer overflows, traffic-amplification attacks, or resource-consumption attacks. We will address the general principles associated with how each of these types of attacks works in this order.

Buffer overflows are a type of coding vulnerability that can result in the denial of service of an application, service, or the entire underlying operating system. Generally speaking, buffer overflows are capable of causing a denial of service because they can result in arbitrary data being loaded into unintended segments of memory. This can disrupt the flow of execution and result in a crash of the service or operating...