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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

Zinging Windows servers with OWASP ZAP

OWASP ZAP is a GUI interface that tests the vulnerabilities of a website, and using the details ZAP produces, you can find possible attack vectors on your target machine or machines on the network. We are using one internal lab machine and two machines on the public internet to look for holes and vulnerabilities. The first time you start ZAP, you will see their Apache License, which you must accept. The license mentions that you must not use ZAP to scan a machine or site to which you do not have rights. It is not legal to scan sites you don't have rights to and we will not be amused if we find out you are scanning our test sites without permission. We might consider allowing you to scan the sites with permission, but you will have to ask first.

Zinging Windows servers with OWASP ZAP

The next dialog is a question of whether you wish to use, or continue to use, ZAP with a session. Persist is an odd way to describe the very first time you use ZAP but that is what you are asked. We are...