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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book - Third Edition

By : Glen D. Singh
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Book Image

The Ultimate Kali Linux Book - Third Edition

5 (2)
By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

Embark on an exciting journey into the world of Kali Linux – the central hub for advanced penetration testing. Honing your pentesting skills and exploiting vulnerabilities or conducting advanced penetration tests on wired and wireless enterprise networks, Kali Linux empowers cybersecurity professionals. In its latest third edition, this book goes further to guide you on how to setup your labs and explains breaches using enterprise networks. This book is designed for newcomers and those curious about penetration testing, this guide is your fast track to learning pentesting with Kali Linux 2024.x. Think of this book as your stepping stone into real-world situations that guides you through lab setups and core penetration testing concepts. As you progress in the book you’ll explore the toolkit of vulnerability assessment tools in Kali Linux, where gathering information takes the spotlight. You'll learn how to find target systems, uncover device security issues, exploit network weaknesses, control operations, and even test web applications. The journey ends with understanding complex web application testing techniques, along with industry best practices. As you finish this captivating exploration of the Kali Linux book, you'll be ready to tackle advanced enterprise network testing – with newfound skills and confidence.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Index

Identifying vulnerable and outdated components

As aspiring ethical hacker and penetration testers, we often think all organizations take a strict approach to implementing solutions using best practices and ensuring their IT infrastructure has the latest patches and secure configurations. However, there have been many organizations that have been compromised by threat actors due to vulnerabilities found on their web applications and components on servers.

Using vulnerable and outdated components simply means an organization is using unsupported applications and components, as in they are no longer supported by the vendor, which increases the security risk of a potential cyber-attack. Furthermore, if organizations do not frequently perform security testing on their web applications to discover new security flaws, they are left open to new and emerging cyber-attacks and threats.

In the following exercise, you will learn how to use Burp Suite to discover and exploit broken access...