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Kali Linux Cookbook

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Kali Linux Cookbook

Overview of this book

In this age, where online information is at its most vulnerable, knowing how to execute the same attacks that hackers use to break into your system or network helps you plug the loopholes before it's too late and can save you countless hours and money. Kali Linux is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testing and security auditing. It is the successor to BackTrack, the world's most popular penetration testing distribution. Discover a variety of popular tools of penetration testing, such as information gathering, vulnerability identification, exploitation, privilege escalation, and covering your tracks. Packed with practical recipes, this useful guide begins by covering the installation of Kali Linux and setting up a virtual environment to perform your tests. You will then learn how to eavesdrop and intercept traffic on wireless networks, bypass intrusion detection systems, and attack web applications, as well as checking for open ports, performing data forensics, and much more. The book follows the logical approach of a penetration test from start to finish with many screenshots and illustrations that help to explain each tool in detail. The Kali Linux Cookbook will serve as an excellent source of information for the security professional and novice alike!
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Kali Linux Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing to a USB drive with persistent memory


Having a Kali Linux USB drive provides us with the ability to persistently save system settings and permanently update and install new software packages onto the USB device, allowing us to carry our own personalized Kali Linux, with us at all times.

Thanks to tools such as Win32 Disk Imager, we can create a bootable Live USB drive of a vast majority of Linux distributions, including Kali Linux with persistent storage.

Getting ready

The following tools and preparations are needed in order to continue:

How to do it...

Let's begin the process of installing Kali Linux to a USB drive:

  1. Insert a formatted/writeable USB drive:

  2. Start Win32 Disk Imager.

  3. At the Image File location, click on the folder icon and select the location of the Kali Linux DVD ISO image:

  4. Make sure that Space used to preserve files across reboots is set to 4096.

  5. Select our USB drive and click on the OK button to start creating the bootable USB drive.

  6. The process will take some time to complete while it extracts and copies the DVD files to the USB and installs the bootloader.

  7. When the installation is complete, we're ready to reboot the computer and boot from the newly created Kali Linux USB drive with persistent memory: