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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982165

Length 512 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Dhruv Shah

Ishan Girdhar

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Network Information Gathering

3. Network Vulnerability Assessment

4. Network Exploitation

5. Web Application Information Gathering

6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment

7. Web Application Exploitation

8. System and Password Exploitation

9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation

10. Wireless Exploitation

Pen Testing 101 Basics

Setting up API keys for recon-ng

In this recipe, we will see how we need to set up API keys before starting to use recon-ng. Recon-ng is of the most powerful information gathering tools; if used properly, it can help pentesters gather a fairly good amount of information from sources. With the latest version available, recon-ng provides the flexibility to set it up as own app/clients in various social networking websites.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will require an Internet connection and a web browser.

How to do it...

To set up recon-ng API Keys, open the terminal, launch recon-ng, and type the commands shown in the following screenshot:

Next, type keys list, as shown in the following screenshot:

Let's start adding twitter_api and twitter_secret. Log in to Twitter, go to https://apps.twitter.com/ , and create a new application, as in the screenshot:

Click on Create Application; once the application is created, navigate to the Keys and Access Tokens tab and copy the secret key...

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Authors (2)

Ishan Girdhar

Ishan Girdhar

Ishan Girdhar is a senior pentester and DevSecOps engineer. With over 7 years of work experience, he has been vigorously involved in building application security and bug bounty programs, in his current and previous roles, helping businesses and organizations to be more secure ad aware. He is currently working with Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing platform, Grab. Previously, he has worked with organizations such as InMobi and one of

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Dhruv Shah

Dhruv Shah

Dhruv Shah holds a Masters degree in IT and has 7 years of experience as a specialist in Information Security. He started off as a trainer sensitizing staff in private sector organizations about security issues and what hackers look for when they launch attacks on networks. He, later on, switched his job to carry out penetration testing for Indian government agencies and then for banking clients in the Middle East. He now has extensive experience in penetration testing for Fortune 500 companies involving web and mobile applications, networks, Infra, and Red Team work. In his spare time, he co-authored the book Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation and is an active member and moderator of one of the Null chapters in India.

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