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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

Summary

In this chapter, we took a quick journey into basic embedded systems and their architecture, and we learned about different types of firmware, bootloaders, UART, radio sniffing, and common tools that can be utilized during hardware hacking. We also learned how to unpack firmware and load new firmware on a router using USB JTAG NT. Additionally, we explored using RouterSploit to identify the specific vulnerabilities in the embedded devices. Finally, we learned how to clone a physical RFID/NFC card using a ChameleonMini, which can be utilized during red teaming exercises.

We hope this book has helped you to understand the fundamental risks and how attackers use these tools to compromise networks/devices within a few seconds, and how you can use the same tools and techniques to understand your infrastructure’s vulnerabilities, as well as the importance of remediation and patch management before your own infrastructure is compromised. On that note, this chapter concludes...