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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

Summary

During the course of this chapter, we have discussed the techniques that we can use to determine web technologies on a web server and perform real-world simulation attacks on target web applications.

You are now able to discover the underlying web technologies that are used on a target web server and perform further enumeration to discover additional websites that are being hosted on a single web server. Furthermore, by completing the exercises in this chapter, you have the skills to discover any sensitive files and directories on a target server and perform website penetration testing to exploit file uploads and LFI vulnerabilities.

I hope this chapter has been helpful and informative in your studies and career. In the next chapter, Chapter 15, Website Penetration Testing Gaining Access, you'll be learning about using advanced web application penetration...