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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation 2. Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Using BeEF for browser-based exploitation

One of the best tools out there for phishing attacks is BeEF. BeEF uses weaknesses that are found in web browsers for client-side attacks. These attacks hook web browsers and use them as beachheads in order to attack the host directly. It is a very easy attack, as it is often easy to trick users. It shows the importance of making sure your browser is patched and up to date.

BeEF can be placed in many categories, but I consider it an exploitation tool and that is how I plan to use it in my lab. BeEF is a very popular tool for penetration testers as it adds yet another vector for us to test against; it looks beyond perimeter security, and it doesn't require us to change any security or settings against the endpoint targets. It is also a very good tool to test your users with various social engineering tasks by seeing who clicks on which...

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