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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook End-to-end penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121829
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

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 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

Hunting for SSL flaws


Most of the web applications today use SSL to communicate with the server. The sslscan is a great tool to check SSL for flaws or misconfigurations.

How to do it...

To learn about sslscan follow the given steps:

  1. We will look at the help manual to see the various options the tool has:
sslscan -h  

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

  1. To run the tool against a host we type the following:
sslscan host.com:port 

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

See also

  • The A tale of a bleeding heart recipe from Chapter 5, Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation

TLSSLed is also an alternative we can use in Kali to perform checks on SSL.

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