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Mastering Nmap [Video]

By : Fotios Chantzis
Book Image

Mastering Nmap [Video]

By: Fotios Chantzis

Overview of this book

You will learn how to use this tool to implement a wide variety of practical tasks related to pentesting and network monitoring. The tutorial will start with installation techniques and then explain Nmap fundamentals. Moving on, we will cover the advanced functionalities of Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) such as libraries, scripts, APIs, and so on. You will be able to perform custom tasks, the fundamentals of Lua programming, scanning mail servers, scanning databases, windows machines, SCADA systems, and large networks.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Chapter 7
Mapping and Owning the Network
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Section 2
Privilege Escalation and RDP Cracking
The aim of this video is to demonstrate exploiting misconfigurations to escalate privileges and to show how to perform RDP cracking with Ncrack. - First, we explore the Linux host on which we previously gained a shell - Then, we leverage an insecurely configured file to escalate our privileges - Finally, we show how to perform RDP brute-forcing with Ncrack