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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
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Section 3: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2019

Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering

Many organizations tend to believe that having a single protection system on their network perimeter is enough to safeguard their assets. Having a single network firewall is simply a single-layer defense; there are many ways in which attacks can bypass the security systems and controls within a corporate network. One technique that is commonly used is to manipulate a person into doing something or revealing confidential information to the attacker. This is known as social engineering.

As a penetration tester, it's important to understand the essential concepts, techniques, and practical aspects of this topic as it will aid you in gaining user credentials, system and network access in a corporate network, and other sensitive details about an employee and the target network. During the course of this chapter, you will compare and contrast...