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Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing Conduct network testing, surveillance, and pen testing on MS Windows using Kali Linux 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788997461
Length 404 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Wolf Halton Wolf Halton
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Bo Weaver Bo Weaver
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Preface 1. Choosing Your Distro FREE CHAPTER 2. Sharpening the Saw 3. Information Gathering and Vulnerability Assessments 4. Sniffing and Spoofing 5. Password Attacks 6. NetBIOS Name Service and LLMNR - Obsolete but Still Deadly 7. Gaining Access 8. Windows Privilege Escalation and Maintaining Access 9. Maintaining Access on Server or Desktop 10. Reverse Engineering and Stress Testing 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Reverse Engineering to get a definitive answer as to the actual code for a complicated application is unlikely, since there are many ways to achieve the same output via loops or choice structures. It is easier to get a statistical list of possible treatments of the inputs by testing several of them. You are likely to get more detail from looking at the assembly code outputs from EDB-Debugger or OllyDbg. As you have probably noticed, the assembly code for Linux and for Windows applications is basically identical. High-level languages such as C and C++ are just ways to get at the assembly code that can be easily converted to machine code to tell the machine what to do.

Stress testing your Windows hosts comes down to checking their ability to take in many inputs over a short period of time, on any open ports whatsoever. Remember, when stress testing, you will make a lot of...

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