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Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing Conduct network testing, surveillance, and pen testing on MS Windows using Kali Linux 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788997461
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Wolf Halton Wolf Halton
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Bo Weaver Bo Weaver
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Choosing Your Distro FREE CHAPTER 2. Sharpening the Saw 3. Information Gathering and Vulnerability Assessments 4. Sniffing and Spoofing 5. Password Attacks 6. NetBIOS Name Service and LLMNR - Obsolete but Still Deadly 7. Gaining Access 8. Windows Privilege Escalation and Maintaining Access 9. Maintaining Access on Server or Desktop 10. Reverse Engineering and Stress Testing 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you got to use three new tools for password cracking, and also learned how to add a new item to the main menu. Johnny, and his progenitor, John the Ripper, are the most popular tools you can find on Kali, for cracking hashes on the local machine, so you will probably choose one of these two tools when you are testing your users' password decisions.

Hydra has many more options than basic John-based tools, but with the improved power comes increased complexity. Hydra is designed to attack specific devices over the wire, but as you discovered, the attack surface is very small and the tool is very noisy.

You have also learned that Hydra can use the GPU instead of the CPU, giving you even faster cracking times.

In the next chapter, we will learn about the ancient and broken protocols, NetBIOS and LLMR, and how to exploit and gain access to Windows systems...

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