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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book - Second Edition

By : Glen D. Singh
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Book Image

The Ultimate Kali Linux Book - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is the most popular and advanced penetration testing Linux distribution within the cybersecurity industry. Using Kali Linux, a cybersecurity professional will be able to discover and exploit various vulnerabilities and perform advanced penetration testing on both enterprise wired and wireless networks. This book is a comprehensive guide for those who are new to Kali Linux and penetration testing that will have you up to speed in no time. Using real-world scenarios, you’ll understand how to set up a lab and explore core penetration testing concepts. Throughout this book, you’ll focus on information gathering and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux. You’ll learn to discover target systems on a network, identify security flaws on devices, exploit security weaknesses and gain access to networks, set up Command and Control (C2) operations, and perform web application penetration testing. In this updated second edition, you’ll be able to compromise Active Directory and exploit enterprise networks. Finally, this book covers best practices for performing complex web penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment. By the end of this Kali Linux book, you’ll have gained the skills to perform advanced penetration testing on enterprise networks using Kali Linux.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing
5
Section 2: Reconnaissance and Network Penetration Testing
11
Section 3: Red Teaming Techniques
17
Section 4: Social Engineering and Web Application Attacks

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the importance of performing reconnaissance and footprinting techniques on a target before exploiting its systems and networks. You learned how to use various strategies to ensure your network traffic is anonymized and how to create a sock puppet to cloak your true identity on the internet. Furthermore, you learned how to use various online tools and Kali Linux to help automate the process of collecting data to profile a target organization, as well as to discover any of their assets, which may be connected to the internet.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and will prove helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester, where you'll be learning how to simulate real-world cyberattacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next chapter, Chapter 5, Exploring Active Information Gathering, we will focus more on a direct approach to information gathering and how to...