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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

You're reading from   Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks Build your own secure enterprise or home penetration testing lab to dig into the various hacking techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785283154
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrey Popov Andrey Popov
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Aaron Woody Aaron Woody
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Vyacheslav Fadyushin Vyacheslav Fadyushin
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Preface 1. Understanding Wireless Network Security and Risks 2. Planning Your Lab Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Configuring Networking Lab Components 4. Designing Application Lab Components 5. Implementing Security 6. Exploring Hacking Toolkits 7. Preparing a Wireless Penetration Testing Platform 8. What's Next? Index

Infrastructure hacking tools


Infrastructure hacking is such a broad topic including so many subtopics that each of them could be distinguished into a separate huge security domain. Therefore, there are so many hacking toolsets, frameworks, and software packs for various tasks and scenarios that it would need a whole book to describe all of them. Instead of that, we are going to just review probably the most popular, free, and well-known hacking tool and framework Metasploit Framework (also known as MSF) maintained by the company Rapid7.

Nmap

Nmap is the most popular network security tool used by hackers and pentesters (and our favorite). This is an excellent tool for discovery and enumeration of available live hosts, open ports and network services, and much more. It can be used for security checks, to determine a service running on the host, to identify the OS and applications, and even to determine the type of firewall used on a scanned node.

The source code and binaries of Nmap are available...

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