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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

Web app pentest with Vega

Vega is an open source web app pentesting tool built in to Java. It has a JavaScript-based API, which makes it even more powerful and flexible. Vega is pretty easy to use in the following recipe, and you will learn how to perform a scan with it.

Getting ready

Some Kali versions do not come with Vega installed, but it can be installed using the command:

apt-get install vega

How to do it...

Vega is inbuilt in Kali and can be started using this command:

      vega

The preceding command opens up the Vega tool:

There are two ways to start...

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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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