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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition Become a cybersecurity ethical hacking expert using Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, and Burp Suite

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801819770
Length 572 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing 2. Open-Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance FREE CHAPTER 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security 6. Wireless and Bluetooth Attacks 7. Exploiting Web-Based Applications 8. Cloud Security Exploitation 9. Bypassing Security Controls 10. Exploitation 11. Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement 12. Privilege Escalations 13. Command and Control 14. Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

WPA3

Although the adoption of the third generation of WPA (WPA3) was introduced in January 2018 as a replacement for WPA2 to remedy the weaknesses of WPA2, it is not widely used. This standard utilizes 192-bit cryptographic strength and WPA3-Enterprise works with AES-256 in GCM mode with SHA-384 (Secure Hashing Algorithm) as Hash-Based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) and still enforces the use of CCMP-128 (Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Protocol), which is AES-128 (American Encryption Standard) in CCM mode and this is used as the minimum encryption algorithm in WPA3-Personal.

Unlike WPA2’s Pre-Shared Key (PSK), WPA3 utilizes Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), also known as Dragonfly. One quite interesting paper written by Mathy Vanhoef (https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2021.pdf) outlines the design flaws in the IEEE Standard 802.11 relating to frame fragmentation, aggregation, and Forge attacks.

Although there are no readily available...

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