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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Setting up API keys for recon-ng


In this recipe, we will see how we need to set up API keys before starting to use recon-ng. Recon-ng is of the most powerful information gathering tools; if used properly, it can help pentesters gather a fairly good amount of information from sources. With the latest version available, recon-ng provides the flexibility to set it up as own app/clients in various social networking websites.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will require an Internet connection and a web browser.

How to do it...

  1. To set up recon-ng API Keys, open the terminal, launch recon-ng, and type the commands shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Next, type keys list, as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Let's start adding twitter_api and twitter_secret. Log in to Twitter, go to https://apps.twitter.com/ , and create a new application, as in the screenshot:

  1. Click on Create Application; once the application is created, navigate to the Keys and Access Tokens tab and copy the secret key...
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