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Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888427
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Tedi Heriyanto Tedi Heriyanto
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Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
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Gerard Johansen
Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Shakeel Ali Shakeel Ali
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Beginning with Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Penetration Testing Methodology 3. Target Scoping 4. Information Gathering 5. Target Discovery 6. Enumerating Target 7. Vulnerability Mapping 8. Social Engineering 9. Target Exploitation 10. Privilege Escalation 11. Maintaining Access 12. Wireless Penetration Testing 13. Kali Nethunter 14. Documentation and Reporting A. Supplementary Tools B. Key Resources Index

Wireless attacks

One of the distinct advantages to using the Nethunter platform is its size and the ability to be discrete. This is a useful advantage if you are tasked with testing the wireless security of a site while trying to maintain a level of covertness. Sitting in the lobby of a target location with your laptop open and external antenna attached may attract some unwanted attention. Rather, deploying Nethunter on a Nexus 5 phone and having a discrete external antenna hidden behind a newspaper or day planner is a better way to keep a low profile. Another key advantage of the Nethunter platform in conducting wireless penetration testing is the ability to cover a wider area, such as a campus environment, without having to cart around a large laptop.

As we previously discussed in deploying Kali Nethunter, one of the use cases was in wireless penetration testing. In Chapter 12, Wireless Penetration Testing, there are a great many tools and techniques that can be leveraged using Kali Linux...

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