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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

Summary


We showed you some of the tools we use to discover the extents of a target network. We use most of these tools every single week. The first three, Nmap, Zenmap, and OpenVAS, are in use daily. Maltego and KeepNote help you keep your evidence in order. Unicorn-Scan is an interesting alternative to Nmap. EtherApe is really a tool you can use as a graphical display of what is happening in your network. Just run it on a utility box with the output screen where you can see it. You will be able to see traffic issues before your IPS sends an alert. If you have been trying things out as you went along, you should be able to produce a complete and precise overview of the network, and be able to start targeting specific machines for attacks in any network.

In the next chapter, we'll be learning the use of tools to exploit several common windows vulnerabilities and guidelines to create and implement new exploits for upcoming vulnerabilities.