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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook End-to-end penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121829
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali – An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies 3. Vulnerability Assessment 4. Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation on Current 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. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 11. Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries 12. Writing Reports

Hands-on with RTLSDR scanner


RTLSDR scanner is a cross-platform GUI that can be used for spectrum analysis. It will scan the given frequency range and display the output in a spectrogram.

How to do it...

Here is the recipe to run rtlsdr-scanner:

  1. We connect RTLSDR to the system and start the scanner using the command:
rtlsdr-scanner

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

  1. We should see a new window open, showing the GUI interface of the tool; here we can simply enter the frequency range on which we want to perform the scan and click on Start scan:
  1. It will take some time to see a sweep of frequencies, and then we will see the result in graphical format:

Note

If the application stops responding, it is recommended you lower the range and choose Single as the Mode instead of continuous.

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