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Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

By : Brian Sak, Jilumudi Raghu Ram
Book Image

Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting

By: Brian Sak, Jilumudi Raghu Ram

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It gives access to a large collection of security-related tools for professional security testing - some of the major ones being Nmap, Aircrack-ng, Wireshark, and Metasploit. This book will take you on a journey where you will learn to master advanced tools and techniques to conduct wireless penetration testing with Kali Linux. You will begin by gaining an understanding of setting up and optimizing your penetration testing environment for wireless assessments. Then, the book will take you through a typical assessment from reconnaissance, information gathering, and scanning the network through exploitation and data extraction from your target. You will get to know various ways to compromise the wireless network using browser exploits, vulnerabilities in firmware, web-based attacks, client-side exploits, and many other hacking methods. You will also discover how to crack wireless networks with speed, perform man-in-the-middle and DOS attacks, and use Raspberry Pi and Android to expand your assessment methodology. By the end of this book, you will have mastered using Kali Linux for wireless security assessments and become a more effective penetration tester and consultant.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Mastering Kali Linux Wireless Pentesting
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Session hijacking using Tamper Data


Session hijacking is a technique that's used to gain unauthorized access to information or an account by exploiting a valid computer session. Sometimes, it is also referred to as cookie hijacking as cookies are often used to track the user session. By stealing a cookie from the client session, an attacker can spoof the client and perform activities on behalf of the legitimate client.

When a user attempts to access a domain, they are prompted to authenticate to a protected resource. After a successful login with a valid username and password, the web server assigns a unique value to the client to track the user. The unique value is sometimes called session cookie. This session cookie is created by the web server and placed on the client. While this client is communicating with the web server during this session, this cookie information will continue to be used. An attacker positioned between the client and the web server, such as the interface off of our...