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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

You're reading from   Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter Spy on and protect vulnerable ecosystems using the power of Kali Linux for pentesting on the go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
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ISBN-13 9781788995177
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean-Philip Oriyano Sean-Philip Oriyano
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Glen D. Singh Glen D. Singh
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Exploring Kali NetHunter FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Kali NetHunter 3. Understanding the Phases of the Pentesting Process 4. Section 2: Common Pentesting Tasks and Tools
5. Intelligence-Gathering Tools 6. Scanning and Enumeration Tools 7. Penetrating the Target 8. Clearing Tracks and Removing Evidence from a Target 9. Section 3: Advanced Pentesting Tasks and Tools
10. Packet Sniffing and Traffic Analysis 11. Targeting Wireless Devices and Networks 12. Avoiding Detection 13. Hardening Techniques and Countermeasures 14. Building a Lab 15. Selecting a Kali Device and Hardware 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Hardening mobile devices

Sometimes, when discussing the topic of smartphones, we hear an Android user mention that they have rooted their device. What is rooting? Within the Android ecosystem, rooting is refers to the  root-level access on the mobile device. Like Linux, the root user account is considered to be a user with super/full privileges on the system; since Android is Linux-based, gaining full administration privileges is called rooting.

Having a device with full access rights is awesome, which means you can install and modify the applications and system resources to fit your needs. However, rooting comes with many security risks for Android users. First, the device's warranty becomes null or void if it's rooted and it has a higher possibility of being infected with malware. During the process of rooting, a device may cause it to become unusable, or what...

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