You're reading from Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition!

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785888427

Length 572 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (4):

Tedi Heriyanto

Gerard Johansen

Lee Allen

Shakeel Ali

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Beginning with Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER

2. Penetration Testing Methodology

3. Target Scoping

4. Information Gathering

5. Target Discovery

6. Enumerating Target

7. Vulnerability Mapping

8. Social Engineering

9. Target Exploitation

10. Privilege Escalation

11. Maintaining Access

12. Wireless Penetration Testing

13. Kali Nethunter

14. Documentation and Reporting

A. Supplementary Tools

B. Key Resources

Index

A brief history of Kali Linux

Kali Linux (Kali) is a Linux distribution system that was developed with a focus on penetration testing. Previously, Kali Linux was distributed as BackTrack, which itself is a merger between three different live Linux penetration testing distributions: IWHAX, WHOPPIX, and Auditor.

BackTrack is one of the most famous Linux distribution systems, as can be proven by the number of downloads, which reached more than four million as of BackTrack Linux 4.0 pre final.

Kali Linux Version 1.0 was released on March 12, 2013. Five days later, Version 1.0.1 was released, which fixed the USB keyboard issue. In those five days, Kali had been downloaded more than 90,000 times.

An updated version, Kali Linux 2.0, was released on August 11, 2015. This distribution aimed to provide a better end-user experience, while still maintaining the full functionality of the previous versions. One of the major improvements available in Kali Linux 2.0 was moving toward a rolling distribution. This meant that the Kali Linux developers were pulling updated base Linux packages directly as they were updated, giving the user a stable platform that is updated regularly.

The following are the major features of Kali Linux (http://docs.kali.org/introduction/what-is-kali-linux):

It is based on the Debian Linux distribution
It has more than 600 penetration testing applications
It has vast wireless card support (this will come in handy later on in this book)
It has a custom kernel patched for packet injection
All Kali software packages are GPG signed by each developer
Users can customize Kali Linux to suit their needs
It supports ARM-based systems

You're reading from Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition!

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

A brief history of Kali Linux

Authors (4)

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