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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing

Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Kevin Cardwell
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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing

Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing

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By: Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

Security flaws and new hacking techniques emerge overnight – security professionals need to make sure they always have a way to keep . With this practical guide, learn how to build your own virtual pentesting lab environments to practice and develop your security skills. Create challenging environments to test your abilities, and overcome them with proven processes and methodologies used by global penetration testing teams. Get to grips with the techniques needed to build complete virtual machines perfect for pentest training. Construct and attack layered architectures, and plan specific attacks based on the platforms you’re going up against. Find new vulnerabilities for different kinds of systems and networks, and what these mean for your clients. Driven by a proven penetration testing methodology that has trained thousands of testers, Building Virtual Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition will prepare you for participation in professional security teams.
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Client-side attack methods


As we have already said, when it comes to a client, they do not just sit and wait for a connection from us; therefore, we have to trick them and get them to come to us. We have a number of ways to do this, and we will talk about two of them now.

Bait

When we deploy the bait technique, we set some form of bait and wait for a client to come and take the bait. This is a similar approach to fishing, that is, we try to put some type of bait out and entice a client to come to us. The problem with this approach is the same as the problem with fishing. We do not know whether the client will ever come to where we have the bait.

Lure

Using the lure concept, we are still trying to trick the client to come to us, but we don't just wait for them to come and take some form of bait. Instead, we send the client some form of communication and wait to see whether they are tricked into following our hook. We have three main methods in this scenario, and they are e-mail, web, and USB...

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