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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By : Joshua Crumbaugh, Glen D. Singh
Book Image

Learn Kali Linux 2019

By: Joshua Crumbaugh, 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

Network Penetration Testing - Pre-Connection Attacks

Many organizations have a wireless network. Imagine gaining access to a corporate wireless network and then using the wireless as a medium or channel to break into the wired network and compromise other systems and devices. It is essential to understand wireless penetration testing in order to be able to identify loopholes that would allow such security breaches. These skills will help you as a penetration tester, as you will be required to perform wireless security testing on target networks.

In this chapter, we will take a deep dive into wireless hacking tools such as aircrack-ng. Furthermore, we will cover the essentials of understanding how various wireless attacks work. These attacks include deauthenticating users who are associated with a wireless access point, creating a fake access point, and performing password cracking...