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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Remote working has given hackers plenty of opportunities as more confidential information is shared over the internet than ever before. In this new edition of Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, you’ll learn an offensive approach to enhance your penetration testing skills by testing the sophisticated tactics employed by real hackers. You’ll go through laboratory integration to cloud services so that you learn another dimension of exploitation that is typically forgotten during a penetration test. You'll explore different ways of installing and running Kali Linux in a VM and containerized environment and deploying vulnerable cloud services on AWS using containers, exploiting misconfigured S3 buckets to gain access to EC2 instances. This book delves into passive and active reconnaissance, from obtaining user information to large-scale port scanning. Building on this, different vulnerability assessments are explored, including threat modeling. See how hackers use lateral movement, privilege escalation, and command and control (C2) on compromised systems. By the end of this book, you’ll have explored many advanced pentesting approaches and hacking techniques employed on networks, IoT, embedded peripheral devices, and radio frequencies.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking

The embedded systems market has been given a real boost by the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) by consumers. Modern connected embedded devices are becoming more attractive and are widely deployed across many big corporations, Small Offices/Home Offices (SOHOs), and Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMB) and are being directly utilized by global household consumers. As per www.statista.com, connected IoT devices have grown from 15.41 billion devices in 2015 to 35.82 billion devices in 2021, and there are expected to be 75.44 billion devices by 2025. In the same way, threats have grown, and the security of these devices has become the biggest area of concern to manufacturers and consumers. A recent good example of this is the vulnerabilities found in Realtek chipsets (CVE-2021-35395) that affected 65+ vendors that produce smart devices. The way the attacks originated indicates that they might have been done by the same attackers that created...