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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
1
Section 1: Kali Linux Basics
6
Section 2: Reconnaissance
9
Section 3: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2019

Technical requirements

The following are the technical requirements for this chapter:

  • Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/)
  • VMware Workstation or Oracle VM VirtualBox
  • A wireless network interface card (NIC) that supports packet injection

Not all wireless cards support monitor mode and packet injection. However, a minor revision in a chipset can cause the card to not work in monitor mode, and some cards may need the drivers to be compiled and may not work out of the box.

The following is a list of supported external wireless NICs for Kali Linux:

  • Atheros: ATH9KHTC (AR9271, AR7010)
  • Ralink: RT3070
  • Realtek: RTL8192CU
  • TP-Link TL-WN722N
  • TP-Link TL-WN822N v1 - v3
  • Alfa Networks AWUS036NEH
  • Alfa Networks AWUS036NHA
  • Alfa Networks AWUSO36NH

I would personally recommend using the Alfa Networks AWUS036NHA card.