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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

You're reading from Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788624480

Length 396 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Chiheb Chebbi

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

2. Advanced Linux Exploitation FREE CHAPTER

3. Corporate Network and Database Exploitation

4. Active Directory Exploitation

5. Docker Exploitation

6. Exploiting Git and Continuous Integration Servers

7. Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation

8. VLAN Exploitation

9. VoIP Exploitation

10. Insecure VPN Exploitation

11. Routing and Router Vulnerabilities

12. Internet of Things Exploitation

13. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Linux kernel exploitation

There are many motives for hacking, but nothing can be compared with the excitement of fully taking control of the systems. This can be done by exploiting the Linux kernel. Attacking the core of the system will make hackers feel on top of the world; that is why the kernel represents a high-priority target for every hacker.

UserLand versus kernel land

Most operating systems rely on a ring protection model. This model represents superposed conceptual rings varying from high to low privileges. There are four layers numbered from 0 to 3:

Ring 3: This layer is the usual interaction layer, with the user normally in the user mode.
Ring 2: This layer contains operations with low privilege.
Ring 1: This is...

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