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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 - Post-Connection Attacks

Gaining access to a system or network is definitely not the end of performing scanning and further exploitation. Once you've gained entry to a secure environment, such as a target organization, this is where you'll need to divide and conquer other internal systems. However, the techniques involved in performing internal scanning are similar to those mentioned in earlier chapters (Chapter 6, Active Information Gathering). Here, new techniques will be introduced for scanning, exploitation, privilege escalation, and performing lateral movements on a network. To elaborate further, you will learn how to perform Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks using various techniques and tools and see how to gather sensitive information such as users' credentials.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Gathering...