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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Himanshu Sharma
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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Many organizations have been affected by recent cyber events. At the current rate of hacking, it has become more important than ever to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2018.4 / 2019), in addition to covering the core functionalities. The book will get you off to a strong start by introducing you to the installation and configuration of Kali Linux, which will help you to perform your tests. You will also learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp and JexBoss. As you progress, you will get to grips with performing network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. The book will also help you delve into the technique of carrying out wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Later chapters will draw focus to the wide range of tools that help in forensics investigations and incident response mechanisms. As you wrap up the concluding chapters, you will learn to create an optimum quality pentest report. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the knowledge you need to conduct advanced penetration testing, thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Censys

Censys was created in 2017 by the developers of ZMAP. It helps users to discover, monitor, and analyze publicly available devices. Censys regularly explores every IP and popular domain names using ZMAP scans and collects this data to make it available through APIs or web interfaces. In this recipe, we will look at some of the ways to use Censys for recon.

How to do it...

  1. Visit https://censys.io/ in your browser, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. We must be a logged-in user to perform detailed searches, which we will cover later in this recipe.
  1. If we want to look for a particular IP, we can simply paste the IP in the search bar. As we can see in the following screenshot, it will give us basic information about...