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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

Compromising enterprise implementations of WPA2

WPA-Enterprise is a technology that’s widely utilized in corporations. It does not use a single WPA-PSK, which most users use to connect to wireless networks. To maintain the governance and the flexibility of the domain accounts, corporations utilize WPA-Enterprise.

A typical approach to compromising a WPA-Enterprise network would first be to enumerate the wireless devices and finally attack the connected clients to find out the authentication details. This consists of spoofing a target network and also providing a good signal to the client. Then, the original valid AP later leads into a MiTM attack between the AP and the clients connecting to the AP. To simulate a WPA-Enterprise attack, attackers must be physically near to the target when they have a range of APs. Attackers can also sniff the traffic using Wireshark to identify the wireless network traffic handshake.

In this section, we will explore different tools that...