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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 (12 chapters)
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Index

Where can you find instructions on this thing?


On a Linux box there are three places you can find more information about a command-line application:

  • The Help page: Almost all Unix and Linux applications have a help file that you can access by typing the application name and -h on the command line, for example, root@kali-01: ~# nmap -h.

  • The Man page: Here is a full manual for most modern command-line applications that you can access by typing man and the application name on the command line. For example, root@kali-01: ~# man rsync gets you a pretty good explanation of how to use Rsync, the secure and logged file transfer protocol. Man pages are of varying quality and many of them are actually written by rocket scientists, so a newbie may have to research how to read the manual page before it can be useful. The Nmap man page is clearly written with understandable examples to try out.

  • Info pages: For BASH shell built-ins, there is a group of info pages instead of man pages. To get at the info...