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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787121829

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Himanshu Sharma

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Kali – An Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies

3. Vulnerability Assessment

4. Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10

5. Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation

6. Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Introduction

7. Password Attacks – The Fault in Their Stars

8. Have Shell Now What?

9. Buffer Overflows

10. Playing with Software-Defined Radios

11. Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries

12. Writing Reports

Configuring Kali Linux

We will use the official Kali Linux ISO provided by Offensive Security to install and configure different desktop environments such as Mate, e17, Xfce, LXDE, and KDE desktops.

Getting ready

To start with this recipe we will use the 64-bit Kali Linux ISO listed on the Offensive Security website:

https://www.kali.org/downloads/

For users looking to configure Kali in a virtual machine such as VMware, VirtualBox, and so on, a pre-built image of the Linux can be downloaded from https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vmware-virtualbox-image-download/.

We will use the virtual image in this chapter and customize it with some additional tools.

How to do it...

You can configure Kali with the help of the given steps:

Double-click on the VirtualBox image, it should open with VirtualBox:

Click Import:

Start the machine and enter the password as toor:

Now, Kali is started and by default is configured with the GNOME desktop environment:

How it works...

With the pre-built image you don't need to worry about the installation process. You can consider it as a ready-to-go solution. Simply click on run and the virtual machine will boot up Linux just like a normal machine.

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Authors (1)

Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma has been in the field of security since 2009 and has been listed in the halls of fame of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and many more. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts. He has been a speaker at various conferences worldwide such as BotConf, CONFidence, Hack In the Box, SINCON, Sec-T, Hackcon, and numerous others. Currently, he is the co-founder of BugsBounty. He also authored multiple bestsellers titled "Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook", " Hands-On Red Team Tactics" and "Hands-On Web Pentesting with Metasploit."

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