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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

Bypassing Security Controls

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many organizations to switch completely to remote working in 2020, and this has significantly increased the risk associated with the endpoint devices that remote workers use. The rise of Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) from early 2018 to now has emerged as a replacement for traditional antivirus software, due to the various types of security incidents, especially sophisticated ransomware and leakware. Having said that, most of the time, when testers get internal network access or highly privileged access, they think they are done with the test, assuming that they have the knowledge and toolset to completely compromise the network or enterprise.

One of the neglected aspects during a penetration test activity is bypassing security controls to assess the target organization’s detection and prevention techniques. In all penetration testing activities, penetration testers or attackers need to understand what renders...