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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition Become a cybersecurity ethical hacking expert using Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, and Burp Suite

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801819770
Length 572 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Open-Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security 6. Wireless and Bluetooth Attacks 7. Exploiting Web-Based Applications 8. Cloud Security Exploitation 9. Bypassing Security Controls 10. Exploitation 11. Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement 12. Privilege Escalations 13. Command and Control 14. Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Summary

This chapter has detailed the first step in an attack process or kill chain: to conduct information harvesting, or passive reconnaissance, to identify the right information on the target with the power of OSINT. Passive reconnaissance provides a real-time view of an attacker’s perspective on a target company. This is a stealthy assessment: the IP address and activities of an attacker are almost indistinguishable from normal business traffic.

The same information is extremely fruitful during social engineering attacks or when facilitating other attacks. We took a deep dive into the use of automated tools to save time and performed passive reconnaissance using both offensive and defensive OSINT.

In the next chapter, we will learn the difference between the types of reconnaissance in an active sense and make use of the data that was harvested using OSINT. Although active reconnaissance techniques will provide more information, there is always an increase in the...

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