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Improving your Penetration Testing Skills

You're reading from   Improving your Penetration Testing Skills Strengthen your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux and Metasploit

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Product type Course
Published in Jul 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838646073
Length 712 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Daniel Teixeira Daniel Teixeira
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Juned Ahmed Ansari Juned Ahmed Ansari
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright About Packt Contributors Preface 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server 4. Authentication and Session Management Flaws 5. Detecting and Exploiting Injection-Based Flaws 6. Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities 7. Cross-Site Request Forgery, Identification, and Exploitation 8. Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations 9. Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications 10. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals 11. Information Gathering and Scanning 12. Server-Side Exploitation 13. Meterpreter 14. Post-Exploitation 15. Using MSFvenom 16. Client-Side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 17. Social-Engineer Toolkit 18. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

Configuring PostgreSQL

An important feature of Metasploit is the backend database support for PostgreSQL, which you can use to store your penetration-testing results. Any penetration test consists of lots of information and can run for several days, so it becomes essential to store the intermediate results and findings, such as target host data, system logs, collected evidence, and report data. As a good penetration-testing tool, Metasploit has proper database integration to store the results quickly and efficiently. In this recipe, we will be dealing with the installation and configuration process of a database in Kali Linux.

Getting ready

To configure PostgreSQL, we will first start the service and then use the Metasploit ...

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