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You're reading from Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook Practical recipes that combine strategies, attacks, and tools for advanced penetration testing

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789952308

Length 472 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Himanshu Sharma

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Kali - An Introduction FREE CHAPTER

2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies

3. Vulnerability Assessment - Poking for Holes

4. Web App Exploitation - Beyond OWASP Top 10

5. Network 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. Elementary, My Dear Watson - Digital Forensics

11. Playing with Software-Defined Radios

12. Kali in Your Pocket - NetHunters and Raspberries

13. Writing Reports

14. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The good old Aircrack

Aircrack is a software suite for a network that consists of a network detector, packet sniffer, and WEP/WPA2 cracker. It is open source, built for 802.11 wireless LANs. It consists of various tools such as aircrack-ng, airmon-ng, airdecap, aireplay-ng, and packetforge-ng. In this recipe, we will cover the basics of cracking wireless networks with the Aircrack suite. We will learn to use tools like airmon-ng, aircrack-ng, and airodump-ng to crack the password of the wireless networks around us.

Getting ready

We will need to have Wi-Fi hardware that supports packet injection. Alfa card by Alfa Networks, TP-Link TL-WN821N, and EDIMAX EW-7811UTC AC600 are some of the cards we can use. In this recipe, we are...

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Authors (1)

Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma has been in the field of security since 2009 and has been listed in the halls of fame of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and many more. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts. He has been a speaker at various conferences worldwide such as BotConf, CONFidence, Hack In the Box, SINCON, Sec-T, Hackcon, and numerous others. Currently, he is the co-founder of BugsBounty. He also authored multiple bestsellers titled "Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook", " Hands-On Red Team Tactics" and "Hands-On Web Pentesting with Metasploit."

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