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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

Attackers might face a very real chance of their activities being identified, which puts them at risk of exposure to a target. However, we have now seen the different techniques that can be employed during active reconnaissance to mitigate such a risk. Attackers must ensure that there is a balance against the need to map a network, find open ports and services, and determine the operating system and applications that are installed.

The real challenge for attackers is to adopt stealthy scanning techniques to reduce the risk of triggering an alert.

Manual approaches are normally used to create slow scans; however, this approach may not always be effective. Therefore, attackers take advantage of tools such as the Tor network and various proxy applications to hide their identities.

Additionally, we explored how to perform reconnaissance using machine learning using the GyoiThon tool, which can significantly reduce your manual efforts.

In the next chapter, we will...