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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

You're reading from   Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide Learn to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments with this intensive hands-on guide with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517744
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Planning and Scoping for a Successful Penetration Test 2. Advanced Reconnaissance Techniques FREE CHAPTER 3. Enumeration: Choosing Your Targets Wisely 4. Remote Exploitation 5. Web Application Exploitation 6. Exploits and Client-Side Attacks 7. Post-Exploitation 8. Bypassing Firewalls and Avoiding Detection 9. Data Collection Tools and Reporting 10. Setting Up Virtual Test Lab Environments 11. Take the Challenge – Putting It All Together Index

SNMP: A goldmine of information just waiting to be discovered


Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is commonly mismanaged by busy administrators and developers. Frequently, you will see default community strings, or community strings that are reused throughout the entire organization you are testing. You will want to ensure that your clients are using the most secure version of SNMP and that you cannot simply walk in to a building, unplug a phone, and sniff the community string. Newer versions of SNMP include strong encryption to avoid such flaws.

SNMPEnum

Luckily for us there are many tools available that make testing for SNMP simple. We will start off by using SNMPEnum which is a Perl script that can be found in BackTrack 5 R1 in the /pentest/enumeration/snmp/snmpenum directory.

If you would like to follow along with these examples you can either skip ahead a few chapters and follow the pfSense installation and configuration walkthroughs or the Ubuntu machine could be set up to use...

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