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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Testing web security is best done through simulating an attack. Kali Linux lets you do this to professional standards and this is the book you need to be fully up-to-speed with this powerful open-source toolkit.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782163169
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Penetration Testing and Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Server-side Attacks 4. Client-side Attacks 5. Attacking Authentication 6. Web Attacks 7. Defensive Countermeasures 8. Penetration Test Executive Report Index

Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)


The Social Engineer Toolkit (SET) was created and written by the founder of TrustedSec. It is an open-source Python-driven tool aimed at Penetration Testing using social engineering. SET is an extremely popular tool used by security professionals to test an organization's security posture. Real-life attackers use SET to craft active and malicious attacks. It is the tool of choice for the most common social engineering attacks.

To launch SET, go to the following link of the menu bar Exploitation Tools | Social Engineering Tools, and select se-toolkit.

The first time you launch SET on Kali, SET will display the SET distribution updates directly from GitHub. You will be presented with the option of receiving updates automatically. Select yes to receive automatic updates.

SET will ask you to verify that git is installed. Kali comes with git preloaded; however, best practice is following the steps in Chapter 1, Penetration Testing and Setup, to update Kali. Updates...

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