As a future ethical hacker and/or penetration tester, it is quite important when testing payloads or practicing hacking skills that you do not disrupt or cause any sort of harm or damage to other people's computers or network infrastructure, such as that of your organization. To elaborate further, we'll use a simple analogy. Imagine you work for a company called ACME (a fictional organization) and you're the network/system administrator. Your IT director has noticed you express an interest in cybersecurity and that you have significant potential in becoming a penetration tester or an ethical hacker. They, therefore, approve official training in penetration testing certification for you. Once the training has ended, access to the virtual labs through the Authorized Training Centre (ATC) is usually terminated, which poses a real challenge...
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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.
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Learn Kali Linux 2019
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Preface
Introduction to Hacking
Setting Up Kali - Part 1
Setting Up Kali - Part 2
Getting Comfortable with Kali Linux 2019
Section 2: Reconnaissance
Passive Information Gathering
Active Information Gathering
Section 3: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2019
Working with Vulnerability Scanners
Understanding Network Penetration Testing
Network Penetration Testing - Pre-Connection Attacks
Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access
Network Penetration Testing - Post-Connection Attacks
Network Penetration Testing - Detection and Security
Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering
Performing Website Penetration Testing
Website Penetration Testing - Gaining Access
Best Practices
Assessments
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