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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 examined different tasks that are required to perform a successful attack against any wireless network and also how to configure the wireless modem and reconnaissance of APs using tools such as aircrack-ng. In this chapter, we also learned the basics of Bluetooth and also about the complete suite of aircrack-ng tools that are used to identify hidden networks, bypass MAC authentication, and compromise WPA, WPA2, and WPA-Enterprise. We also saw how we can utilize the automated tool Wifite to perform a quick capture of a handshake and crack passwords offline or with a good dictionary with the use of multiple options. Then, we took a deep dive into setting up a fake AP using Wifiphisher, and learned how to perform DoS attacks against wireless networks and Bluetooth devices.

In the next chapter, we will focus on how to assess a website using a methodology that’s specific to this type of access, thereby conducting the reconnaissance and scanning...