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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

Passive Information Gathering

Beginning a career in ethical hacking and/or penetration testing can be very exciting and, most of the time, our minds will be a bit overwhelmed, causing us to visit only the chapters about exploiting a system in a book such as this. However, conducting a penetration test is like starting a new project at home. Before you build a pool in your backyard, there are a few things you must consider, such as the space that's available, the cost of materials, the contractor's fees, and other details. Information gathering is a very important phase of the hacking life cycle and penetration testing.

In this chapter, we will focus on passive information gathering techniques and methods. We will learn how to use the internet to get us the information and specific details we need about our target by using both online resources and tools on Kali Linux...