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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

Introduction to cloud services

Cloud computing, in general, is the on-demand availability of computing resource services, particularly storage and computing power for consumers. The main principles of cloud computing are on-demand, self-service broad network access, multi-tenancy, resource pooling, elasticity, scalability, and measured services. Table 8.1 provides details on the four deployment models cloud service providers offer. If any of these deployment models are successfully exploited and communication is established, then it provides persistent access to achieve the objective of the pentest:

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Deployment Model

Description

Private Cloud

Cloud infrastructure is exclusive and provisioned only for a specific organization. Similar to traditional data centers but hosted on the cloud.