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Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

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Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OS and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, forensics tools and not the OS. This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. First, you are introduced to Kali's top ten tools and other useful reporting tools. Then, you will find your way around your target network and determine known vulnerabilities to be able to exploit a system remotely. Next, you will prove that the vulnerabilities you have found are real and exploitable. You will learn to use tools in seven categories of exploitation tools. Further, you perform web access exploits using tools like websploit and more. Security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Passwords are often that weak link. Thus, you learn about password attacks that can be used in concert with other approaches to break into and own a network. Moreover, you come to terms with network sniffing, which helps you understand which users are using services you can exploit, and IP spoofing, which can be used to poison a system's DNS cache. Once you gain access to a machine or network, maintaining access is important. Thus, you not only learn penetrating in the machine you also learn Windows privilege’s escalations. With easy to follow step-by-step instructions and support images, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting into Digital Forensics


Today, with computer systems used in everything, when legal battles or crimes happen, sometimes the bulk of the evidence involved will be digital. How the chain of evidence is handled can make or break a case. When preforming third-party penetration testing for PCI or HIPPA, your collected data is your evidence and should be handled just like it would be handled is a legal case. A Chain of Evidence should be laid out and followed during testing and the storage of your evidence after testing. You never know when what you think will be just a normal test may end up being a legal case. An example is when you're testing and find you are not the only one on the network. The network you are testing has already been breached. Now your test has turned into an Incident Response case where legal actions may be taken. Your testing data is now legal evidence. Yes, this does happen in real life. Bo has, on several occasions, found he wasn't the only one in the network while...