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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

You're reading from   The Ultimate Kali Linux Book Perform advanced penetration testing using Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801818933
Length 742 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Glen D. Singh Glen D. Singh
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking 3. Chapter 2: Building a Penetration Testing Lab 4. Chapter 3: Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques 5. Section 2: Reconnaissance and Network Penetration Testing
6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting 7. Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering 8. Chapter 6: Performing Vulnerability Assessments 9. Chapter 7: Understanding Network Penetration Testing 10. Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing 11. Section 3: Red Teaming Techniques
12. Chapter 9: Advanced Network Penetration Testing — Post Exploitation 13. Chapter 10: Working with Active Directory Attacks 14. Chapter 11: Advanced Active Directory Attacks 15. Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics 16. Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing 17. Section 4: Social Engineering and Web Application Attacks
18. Chapter 14: Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering 19. Chapter 15: Understanding Website Application Security 20. Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing 21. Chapter 17: Best Practices for the Real World 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the fundamentals of wireless networking and the security mechanisms that are used to provide a layer of security to users and organizations who implement wireless networking within their companies. Furthermore, you now know how to compromise WPA, WPA2, WPA3, personal, and enterprise networks. Additionally, you have learned how to perform an AP-less attack, which allows a penetration tester to retrieve the password of a probing client where the desired access point is not present within the vicinity. Lastly, you learned how to create wireless honeypots, which act as evil twin and rogue access points.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and is helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester, learning how to simulate real-world cyberattacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next chapter, Chapter 14, Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering, you will...

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