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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

Cloud Security Exploitation

Cloud adoption has significantly changed the way organizations collect, process, and store the data of end users. Some businesses automatically assume that their cloud providers will take care of their cybersecurity, but every cloud consumer, be it an individual or a business, must be aware that it’s a shared responsibility. Having said that, the majority of the time, when testers successfully get access to an internal network, they think they are almost done with the test, assuming they can then proceed to compromise the network or enterprise.

In this chapter, we will explore different types of attacks that pentesters can leverage if they gain a foothold into a cloud environment. In particular, we will explore AWS and identify multiple processes for circumventing security controls and demonstrate this using the tools in Kali Linux.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned how to attack misconfigured cloud services by covering the...