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Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing Conduct network testing, surveillance, and pen testing on MS Windows using Kali Linux 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788997461
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Choosing Your Distro FREE CHAPTER 2. Sharpening the Saw 3. Information Gathering and Vulnerability Assessments 4. Sniffing and Spoofing 5. Password Attacks 6. NetBIOS Name Service and LLMNR - Obsolete but Still Deadly 7. Gaining Access 8. Windows Privilege Escalation and Maintaining Access 9. Maintaining Access on Server or Desktop 10. Reverse Engineering and Stress Testing 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Running services on Kali Linux

There are several services that you will want to turn on when you need them. The general use of services in Windows and Linux is to have them start when the computer boots up. Most administrators spend little time managing services unless something goes wrong. In the Kali system, you will tend to shut down the workstation when you are not actually doing security analysis tasks, and you certainly do not want security tools, such as OpenVAS or Metasploit, that you have on your workstation to be accessible over the internet. This means that you will want to start them when you need them and shut them down when you are not using them.

You can find the commands to start and stop Kali Services from the Applications menu—Applications | System Services

Another way to work with services is by using systemctl on the command line. As an example, consider...

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