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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

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Product type Book

Published in Feb 2019

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ISBN-13 9781788995177

Pages 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Glen D. Singh

Sean-Philip Oriyano

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Introduction to Kali NetHunter

2. Understanding the Phases of the Pentesting Process

3. Intelligence-Gathering Tools

4. Scanning and Enumeration Tools

5. Penetrating the Target

6. Clearing Tracks and Removing Evidence from a Target

7. Packet Sniffing and Traffic Analysis

8. Targeting Wireless Devices and Networks

9. Avoiding Detection

10. Hardening Techniques and Countermeasures

11. Building a Lab

12. Selecting a Kali Device and Hardware

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Index

Determining whether a host is up or down

If you're going to attempt to enter a system, you first need to have a target to examine and explore, which requires finding out which hosts are online or live and which are not.

Exercise – working with ping

In this exercise, we are going to use the ping utility to check for live targets:

Open the Command Prompt on Windows or the Terminal in Linux.
Ping -c <number of pings> <target IP or hostname>.
Press Enter.
View the results.

Note

If the -c is omitted, the ping command will continue to ping the provided hostname or address until you press Ctrl + C.

If you receive success replies from the target, the host is considered to be live. If you get a request timeout message, this means one of two things: the target is offline or the target has disabled ICMP responses. Systems administrators usually disable ICMP replies for security reasons; if a script kiddie is attempting a ping scan, they would think the target is offline and move on. However, a skilled...

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Authors (2)

Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Sean-Philip Oriyano

Sean-Philip Oriyano is a long-time security professional. Over the past 25 years, he has divided his time between performing security research, consulting, and delivering training in the fields of both general IT and cyber security. He is also a best-selling author with many years' experience in both digital and print media. Sean has published several books over the past decade and has expanded his reach further by appearing on TV and radio shows. Additionally, Sean is a chief warrant officer (CWO) and unit commander specializing in cyber security training, development, and strategy. As a CWO, he is recognized as an SME in his field and is frequently called upon to provide expertise, training, and mentoring wherever needed.

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