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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By : Glen D. Singh
Book Image

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

NSE scripts

NSE is one of the most powerful features within Nmap. It allows users to create and automate scripting to perform customized scans on a target device. By performing scans using various Nmap scripts, you can quickly detect whether your target is susceptible to a known vulnerability, malware, open backdoors, and so on.

The following are the main categories of NSE scripts:

NSE categories

To execute an entire category of scripts, we can use the --script category command. The following snippet is an example of using the vuln category of scripts during an Nmap scan:

Vulnerability found using NSE

Running an entire category of scripts may not always be suitable for various situations. If you are performing a scan to search for systems that contain a specific vulnerability, such as vsFTPd 2.3.4 backdoor (CVE-2011-2523), you can use the following command:

nmap --script ftp...