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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition

You're reading from Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition Become a cybersecurity ethical hacking expert using Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, and Burp Suite

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801819770

Length 572 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Vijay Kumar Velu

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Open-Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance

3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks

4. Vulnerability Assessment

5. Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security

6. Wireless and Bluetooth Attacks

7. Exploiting Web-Based Applications

8. Cloud Security Exploitation

9. Bypassing Security Controls

10. Exploitation

11. Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement

12. Privilege Escalations

13. Command and Control

14. Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

16. Index

Firmware unpacking and updating

With a basic understanding of the bootloaders and different types of firmware, we will explore how to unpack some firmware and update it with our custom firmware on a Cisco Meraki MR18 wireless access point (an embedded device with Cisco firmware). Most of the time, during hardware penetration testing, the firmware images will not include all the files to construct a complete embedded system. Typically, we find the following in each embedded device:

Bootloader (1st/2nd stage)
Kernel
Filesystem images
User-land binaries
Resources and support files
Web server/web interface

Modern embedded devices prevent the installation of different operating systems using their own firmware, therefore to upgrade the device to a customizable operating system, we will utilize OpenWRT, which is open-source firmware for residential gateways, originally created for Linksys WRT54G wireless routers. It has grown into an embedded...

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Authors (1)

Vijay Kumar Velu

Vijay Kumar Velu

Vijay Kumar Velu is a passionate information security practitioner, author, speaker, investor, and blogger. He has 16+ years of IT industry experience, is a licensed penetration tester and is specialized in providing technical solutions to diverse cyber problems, ranging from simple security configuration reviews to cyber threat intelligence. Vijay holds multiple security qualifications, including CEH, ECSA, and CHFI. He has authored a few books on penetration testing: Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Second & Third Editions, and Mobile Application Penetration Testing. For the community, Vijay serves as the chair member of NCDRC, India. When not working, he enjoys playing music and doing charity work.

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