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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

WPA3

Although the adoption of the third generation of WPA (WPA3) was introduced in January 2018 as a replacement for WPA2 to remedy the weaknesses of WPA2, it is not widely used. This standard utilizes 192-bit cryptographic strength and WPA3-Enterprise works with AES-256 in GCM mode with SHA-384 (Secure Hashing Algorithm) as Hash-Based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) and still enforces the use of CCMP-128 (Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Protocol), which is AES-128 (American Encryption Standard) in CCM mode and this is used as the minimum encryption algorithm in WPA3-Personal.

Unlike WPA2’s Pre-Shared Key (PSK), WPA3 utilizes Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), also known as Dragonfly. One quite interesting paper written by Mathy Vanhoef (https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2021.pdf) outlines the design flaws in the IEEE Standard 802.11 relating to frame fragmentation, aggregation, and Forge attacks.

Although there are no readily available...