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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

About the Reviewer

Paolo Stagno, aka VoidSec, is a cyber security analyst and security researcher.

He specializes in penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, cybercrime, and underground intelligence for a wide range of high-profile clients across top-tier international banks, major companies, and industries using bleeding-edge technologies in the cyberspace arena.He has attended various international conferences as a speaker, such as DEFCON, BlackHat, and Droidcon.

He is also the leader and founder of the security blog VoidSec (http://voidsec.com). During the last few years, especially in Italy, the underground hacking community died, not for a lack of ideas or skills but because we lost two fundamental requirements: a meeting place and the possibility to share. VoidSec.com intends to give to all hackers a meeting place, where ideas can be shared freely, where the ones who know can share their knowledge with the community and the inexperienced can learn.