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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By : Glen D. Singh
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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

Summary

During the course of this chapter, we covered the essentials of ARP and how attackers leverage vulnerabilities within ARP to perform ARP poisoning and MITM attacks on networks. Additionally, we took a look at using Wireshark to help us analyze network traffic so that we can quickly detect MITM and ARP attacks.

Now, you have the knowledge and skills to understand how ARP and MITM attacks can be detected using Wireshark and how to implement security controls on your network switches. I hope this chapter will prove helpful and informative for your studies and career.

In Chapter 13, Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering, you'll learn about various social engineering techniques.