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Mastering Metasploit

You're reading from   Mastering Metasploit Exploit systems, cover your tracks, and bypass security controls with the Metasploit 5.0 framework

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838980078
Length 502 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Preparation and Development
2. Chapter 1: Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Reinventing Metasploit 4. Chapter 3: The Exploit Formulation Process 5. Chapter 4: Porting Exploits 6. Section 2 – The Attack Phase
7. Chapter 5: Testing Services with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 9. Chapter 7: Client-Side Exploitation 10. Section 3 – Post-Exploitation and Evasion
11. Chapter 8: Metasploit Extended 12. Chapter 9: Evasion with Metasploit 13. Chapter 10: Metasploit for Secret Agents 14. Chapter 11: Visualizing Metasploit 15. Chapter 12: Tips and Tricks 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Database exploitation

Let's discuss testing database services. In this section, our primary goal is to test the databases and check for various vulnerabilities. Databases contain critical business data. Therefore, if there are any vulnerabilities in the database management system, this can lead to remote code execution or full network compromise, which can lead to the exposure of a company's confidential data. Data related to financial transactions, medical records, criminal records, products, sales, marketing, and so on can be valuable to the buyers of these databases in the underground community.

To make sure the databases are fully secure, we need to develop methodologies for testing these services against various types of attacks. Now, let's start testing databases and look at the different phases of conducting a penetration test on a database.

SQL server

Microsoft launched its database server back in 1989. Today, a significant proportion of websites run...

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