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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

WPA cracking

Given the security vulnerabilities found in WEP, WPA was created in 2002 as an improved wireless security standard for IEEE 802.11 networks. WPA uses the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which applies the RC4 encryption cipher suite for data privacy between the wireless access point and client devices.

Furthermore, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) was later developed to solve security flaws in its predecessor. WPA2 uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for data encryption as opposed to the RC4 cipher. Additionally, WPA2 implemented Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP), which replaced TKIP.

Now, let's get into the fun part, cracking WPA to gain entry to a target wireless network:

  1. Enable monitoring mode on your wireless adapter:
airmon-ng check kill
airmon-ng start wlan0
  1. Perform wireless sniffing on...