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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook Practical recipes that combine strategies, attacks, and tools for advanced penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789952308
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali - An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies 3. Vulnerability Assessment - Poking for Holes 4. Web App Exploitation - Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation 6. Wireless Attacks - Getting Past Aircrack-ng 7. Password Attacks - The Fault in Their Stars 8. Have Shell, Now What? 9. Buffer Overflows 10. Elementary, My Dear Watson - Digital Forensics 11. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 12. Kali in Your Pocket - NetHunters and Raspberries 13. Writing Reports 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Kali - An Introduction

Kali was first introduced in 2012 with a completely new architecture. This Debian-based distribution was released with over 300 specialized tools for penetration testing and digital forensics. It is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd, and the core developers are Mati Aharoni, Devon Kearns, and Raphaël Hertzog.

Kali 3.0 came into the picture in 2018 with tons of new updates, bug fixes such as AMD Secure Memory Encryption Support, and increased memory limits.

In the previous edition of this book, we saw some of the great tools in Kali that help penetration testers around the globe to perform their job efficiently. In this chapter, we will primarily cover the installation of Kali and setting up different desktop environments, as well as some custom tools that will help us.

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Configuring Kali Linux
  • Configuring the Xfce environment
  • Configuring the MATE environment
  • Configuring the LXDE environment
  • Configuring the E17 environment
  • Configuring the KDE environment
  • Prepping Kali with custom tools
  • Zone Walking using DNSRecon
  • Setting up I2P for anonymity
  • Pentesting VPN's ike-scan
  • Setting up proxychains
  • Going on a hunt with Routerhunter
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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Mar 2019
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781789952308
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