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Kali Linux Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Cookbook Effective penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781784390303
Length 438 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Corey Schultz Corey Schultz
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Preface 1. Installing Kali and the Lab Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance and Scanning 3. Vulnerability Analysis 4. Finding Exploits in the Target 5. Social Engineering 6. Password Cracking 7. Privilege Escalation 8. Wireless Specific Recipes 9. Web and Database Specific Recipes 10. Maintaining Access

Using SNMP to gather more information

We can use hosts that we identified through nmap as having open SNMP ports or services running, to try and gather more information.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used to provide status and configuration for various devices including servers, workstations, network appliances, IoT devices, and other hosts. This protocol provides both a read-only and read-write functionality. Quite often, devices have been deployed with read-only available by default. Network administrators will often enable read-write access for management purposes. The default passwords for SNMP on many devices is public for a read-only access and private for a read-write access. There are three types of SNMPs. While version 1 has been mostly deprecated, version 2 is still quite common, and version 3 is gaining in use due to it's better...

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