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Advanced Penetration Testing

By : Wil Allsopp
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Advanced Penetration Testing

By: Wil Allsopp

Overview of this book

Today's threats are organized, professionally-run, and very much for-profit. Advanced Penetration Testing?goes beyond Kali Linux and Metasploit and to provide you advanced pen testing for high security networks. This book integrates social engineering, programming, and vulnerability exploits into a multidisciplinary approach for targeting and compromising high security environments. From discovering and creating attack vectors, and moving unseen through a target enterprise, to establishing command and exfiltrating data—even from organizations without a direct Internet connection—this guide contains the crucial techniques that provide a more accurate picture of your system's defense. Custom coding examples use VBA, Windows Scripting Host, C, Java, JavaScript, Flash, and more, with coverage of standard library applications and the use of scanning tools to bypass common defensive measures. By the end of this book, you’ll be in a position to detect threats and defend your high security network.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Cover
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Title Page
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Background and Mission Briefing

Industrial espionage (and blatant theft of ideas passed off as innovation) has long been a facet of the arms industry. This is particularly evident when comparing NATO/Warsaw Pact weapon systems from the Cold War but the philosophy is alive and well in the domestic arms trade today (see Figure 5.2).

Photo showing Soviet AT-4 (right) and French MILAN system (Left).

Figure 5.2: The Soviet AT-4 (right) was a copy of the French MILAN system (Left).

Source: Composite image, own work