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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from   Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch Your stepping stone to penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622059
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zaid Sabih Zaid Sabih
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Lab 3. Linux Basics 4. Network Penetration Testing 5. Pre-Connection Attacks 6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access 7. Post-Connection Attacks 8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security 10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices 11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools 12. Client-Side Attacks 13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering 14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF 15. Attacks Outside the Local Network 16. Post Exploitation 17. Website Penetration Testing 18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering 19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities 20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities 21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting to a wireless adapter

In this part of the chapter, we will see how to connect a USB device to a virtual machine. As an example, we are going to connect a wireless adapter to a Kali machine, but the same method can be used to connect any USB device. We will need a wireless adapter for the cracking section of the network penetration test, because in later chapters, we will learn how to crack passwords for Wi-Fi networks. Other than that, we can do everything else without a wireless adapter.

A wireless adapter is a USB device that connects to the computer through the USB and allows us to communicate with wireless networks. Most computers and laptops now come with built-in wireless cards. The only problem is, first of all, that we can't access built-in wireless cards from a virtual machine. Also, even if you install Kali as a main machine, the built-in wireless cards...

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