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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

Bluetooth attacks

A casino was once hacked through a fish tank thermometer in the past, which shows the importance of securing devices that are part of the Internet of Things (IoT). Bluetooth is not an exception and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices are used extensively by consumers and corporations, hence it is important for attackers to understand how to probe and attack them.

Important parts of the Bluetooth protocol layers are the following:

  • Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP): This provides the data interface between the high layer data protocols and the applications.
  • Radio Frequency Communications Protocol (RFCOMM): This emulates the functionalities required for serial communication interfaces such as EIA-RS-232 on a computer. RFCOMM can be accessed by AT commands and also the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) through the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) stack and Object Exchange (OBEX) protocol. By default,...