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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

You're reading from The Ultimate Kali Linux Book Harness Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire for cutting-edge pentesting

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835085806

Length 828 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Ethical Hacking

2. Building a Penetration Testing Lab FREE CHAPTER

3. Setting Up for Advanced Penetration Testing Techniques

4. Passive Reconnaissance

5. Exploring Open-Source Intelligence

6. Active Reconnaissance

7. Performing Vulnerability Assessments

8. Understanding Network Penetration Testing

9. Performing Network Penetration Testing

10. Post-Exploitation Techniques

11. Delving into Command and Control Tactics

12. Working with Active Directory Attacks

13. Advanced Active Directory Attacks

14. Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

15. Social Engineering Attacks

16. Understanding Website Application Security

17. Advanced Website Penetration Testing

18. Best Practices for the Real World

19. Index

Appendix

Exploring social engineering tools and techniques

In this section, you will explore how to perform various types of social engineering attacks using an open-source application known as the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) within Kali Linux. You will learn how to create a phishing website to perform credential harvesting and generate a malicious payload that can be placed on a USB flash drive or an optical disk.

All the techniques used in the following sections are to demonstrate a proof of concept strictly for educational purposes only. Do not use such techniques and tools for illegal purposes.

Creating infectious media

A method for tricking a victim is creating infectious media, which is any pluggable media storage device that contains malware created by a threat actor to compromise the targeted system. For instance, a USB flash drive with an auto-executable payload will run automatically when the USB device is connected to a computer. Quite often, humans...

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Authors (1)

Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.

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