You're reading from The Ultimate Kali Linux Book Perform advanced penetration testing using Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818933

Length 742 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

3. Chapter 2: Building a Penetration Testing Lab

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques

5. Section 2: Reconnaissance and Network Penetration Testing

6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting

7. Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering

8. Chapter 6: Performing Vulnerability Assessments

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Network Penetration Testing

10. Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing

11. Section 3: Red Teaming Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Advanced Network Penetration Testing — Post Exploitation

13. Chapter 10: Working with Active Directory Attacks

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Active Directory Attacks

15. Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics

16. Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

17. Section 4: Social Engineering and Web Application Attacks

18. Chapter 14: Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering

19. Chapter 15: Understanding Website Application Security

20. Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing

21. Chapter 17: Best Practices for the Real World

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Setting up a wireless penetration testing lab

Understanding how to perform security testing on wireless networks that use common types of security standards such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), WPA2-Personal, and WPA/WPA2-Enterprise is essential as an aspiring penetration tester.

Within many organizations, you will commonly find wireless networks that are implemented to support the wireless mobility of their employees. Employees can connect their smartphones, tablets, and laptops to the corporate Wi-Fi network and access the resources on the wired network, such as printers and file servers. In small networks, the wireless router or access point is usually configured using one of the following wireless security standards:

WEP
WPA
WPA2-Personal

These security standards are designed for small networks and the regular home consumer as they are simple to configure using a single shared password, known as a Pre-Shared Key (PSK...