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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By : Glen D. Singh
Book Image

Learn Kali Linux 2019

By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

The current rise in hacking and security breaches makes it more important than ever to effectively pentest your environment, ensuring endpoint protection. This book will take you through the latest version of Kali Linux and help you use various tools and techniques to efficiently deal with crucial security aspects. Through real-world examples, you’ll understand how to set up a lab and later explore core penetration testing concepts. Throughout the course of this book, you’ll get up to speed with gathering sensitive information and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux 2019. In later chapters, you’ll gain insights into concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, exploitation of web applications and remote access connections to further build on your pentesting skills. You’ll also focus on techniques such as bypassing controls, attacking the end user and maintaining persistence access through social media. Finally, this pentesting book covers best practices for performing complex penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use Kali Linux to detect vulnerabilities and secure your system by applying penetration testing techniques of varying complexity.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Kali Linux Basics
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Section 2: Reconnaissance
9
Section 3: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2019

Using web application scanners

Web application scanners focus primarily on detecting and identifying vulnerabilities on web servers, websites, and web applications. In your career in cybersecurity, whether as a penetration tester or a security practitioner, you may be tasked to perform some sort of security auditing on a target website or web server.

However, as a penetration tester, we need to be able to discover security misconfigurations and weaknesses on a target website and web server. An organization may contract you to perform a penetration test on their website rather than on their network, or even both. Remember the goal of having a penetration test done on an object such as a website is to identify the vulnerabilities and remediate them as soon as possible before an actual hacker is able to compromise the system and exfiltrate data.

There are many web application scanners...