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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition Secure your network with Kali Linux – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120235
Length 510 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Physical Security and Social Engineering 6. Wireless Attacks 7. Reconnaissance and Exploitation of Web-Based Applications 8. Attacking Remote Access 9. Client-Side Exploitation 10. Bypassing Security Controls 11. Exploitation 12. Action on the Objective 13. Privilege Escalation 14. Command and Control

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows:

"In this particular case, the VM has been assigned an IP address of 192.168.204.132."

A block of code is set as follows:

[default]
f=open('exfiltrated_hex.txt','r')
hex_data=f.read()
ascii_data=hex_data.decode('hex')
print ascii_data

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

# root@kali~# update-rc.d networking defaults

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Clicking on the Next button takes you to the next screen."

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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