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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

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed the fundamentals and concepts of network penetration testing and its importance. We covered hands-on information about connecting a wireless adapter to our Kali Linux machine, discussed the purpose of a MAC address and its composition, and talked about how to spoof our identity by modifying it. Furthermore, we took a look at changing the default mode of our wireless adapter to monitor mode, via both manual configuration and using the airmon-ng tool.

Now that you have completed this chapter, you know how to properly enable monitor mode using both the airmon-ng tool and manually through the Kali Linux OS. Additionally, you are now able to perform monitoring on wireless networks.

I hope this chapter has been informative and is able to assist and guide you through your journey in the field of cybersecurity. In the next chapter, Chapter 9, Network...