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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

During this chapter, you learned how to perform wireless packet sniffing, familiarized yourselves with the basics of packet sniffing, and targeted packet sniffing using aircrack-ng. Additionally, you learned the essential skills required to perform a deauthentication attack on a target wireless access point during the Deauthenticating clients on a wireless network section.

In the Creating a rogue AP/evil twin section, you learned how to use Airgeddon to chain multiple attacks together and create an evil twin/rogue access point. Furthermore, the section on password spraying provided the skills necessary to gain access to a remote system while acquiring the skills to exploit systems that use weak encryption.

In the next chapter, Chapter 10, Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access, we will be covering network penetration in greater detail.

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