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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition Build your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux 2.0

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783988525
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting up Your Lab with Kali Linux 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server 4. Major Flaws in Web Applications 5. Attacking the Server Using Injection-based Flaws 6. Exploiting Clients Using XSS and CSRF Flaws 7. Attacking SSL-based Websites 8. Exploiting the Client Using Attack Frameworks 9. AJAX and Web Services – Security Issues 10. Fuzzing Web Applications Index

Social engineering toolkit


Social engineering toolkit (SET), as it is popularly known, is a menu driven tool in Kali 2.0 used to build different client-side tricks. In Kali Linux version 6.5 is installed. It includes various social engineering attack options that can be deployed from the same interface. It is written in Python and the menu-driven functionality makes it easier to build the attack. The social engineering toolkit helps to execute a complex attack with less efforts and time and also allows us to test various social engineering scenarios in a practical way. It was previously impossible to execute these in a timely manner.

The social engineering toolkit can be found in Kali Linux 2.0 at Applications | Exploitation tools. Once the terminal window is up, you will be presented with the menu shown in the following screenshot. The prompt at the terminal displays set and it waits for your input:

The initial screen presents six options. The Social-Engineering Attacks option is the one...

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