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This practical book outlines the steps needed to perform penetration testing using BackBox. It explains common penetration testing scenarios and gives practical explanations applicable to a real-world setting. This book is written primarily for security experts and system administrators who have an intermediate Linux capability. However, because of the simplicity and user-friendly design, it is also suitable for beginners looking to understand the principle steps of penetration testing.

What you will learn

Perform reconnaissance and collect information about an unknown system

Perform vulnerability scanning, management, and assessment, as well as understand false positives

Understand how SQL injection attacks work and find injectable pages on a web server

Sniff the network to capture sensitive data and learn different methods of privilege escalation

Maintain permanent access on a target server once access is initially granted

Use exploitation tools like Metasploit to exploit the reported vulnerabilities

Learn how to document and generate reports from the entire auditing process

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carlos a. muñoz correa Nov 25, 2016

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CNC guy May 11, 2014

[...]'m not exactly a stranger to penetration testing. I like to do pentesting with armies of BeagleBones running my custom Linux distro, The Deck. When teaching pentesting in the classroom I often find myself reluctantly using Kali Linux just because it has the tools I need to teach included by default. It just so happens that the request to review this book corresponded with my having to perform a pentest on a network setup by students in one of my classes at the university. I decided to use BackBox for this test with the book as my guide.What I liked about this bookI thought this book was very well written. It is relatively short with just over 100 pages of chapter content. It does a good job of pointing out the little gotchas that come with using anything for the first time. For example, the book covers how to fully setup OpenVAS in order to actually use it. The book also does a pretty good job of leading you through a typical pentest and the tools that might be used to perform it.What this book coversThe first chapter is a overview of the rest of the book. Later chapters walk through the pentesting process which includes: information gathering, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, maintaining access, and documentation.What is missingI don't really feel like there was anything missing from this book. While you could always have more coverage of the tools provided by any pentesting distro, this book does a great job of hitting the most commonly used packages. If I were to add anything it would be a couple of case studies to more completely explore the packages provided by BackBox.The NetUsing this book as a guide I was able to perform a successful pentest using BackBox. I am strongly considering using BackBox in my upcoming pentesting class. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about BackBox.

C. C Chin Mar 16, 2017

Basic introduction to penetration testing using backbox linux. I am brand new to pen testing. I brought a bunch of books for a class at MC. I got into a CTF comp at MC April 7, If i have time will try to put together Backbox linux, recommenced by Peter Kim, THP2, pg 4. I have a wind 2012 laptop, 16 gig ram, kali linux and metasploit. I may concentrate on THP2 and basic kali linux testing. Oh yes CTF setting up, violent Python. I just want to get through the beginner CTF. So maybe go back to see what this is all about.My other goal is to teach my son IT and Cybersecurity. Since I really do not know Cyber, I learn it to teach my son, so he can get a job!! Also need future p/t to earn extra $$ for grad school and CCIE. So i brought the Backbox DVD $8 and need new laptop. Maybe just do one box and save this linux for future project.So if Backbox will be my future pent test 2nd box per Peter Kim; have two pent testing boxes. One windows and one either apple or linux.

n Apr 03, 2014

I'm totally new to penetration testing, this book gave me important information: especially in step of setting up the penetration test abd the backbox interface (loved the list of all tool included with a brief description).It's a easy to read text but you have to know at least the average commands of linux shell to bring out the maximum potential of the written information.In less than 150 pages you can start testing and understand what's under the hood of a informatic system, not for advanced penetration testers but a good starting point.Bravo.

Ozzy May 12, 2014

The penetration testing with Backbox is a book that is both detailed and concise. For any newbie with a basic knowledge of Linux, this is the right material for understanding end to end penetration testing with Backbox. The only drawback is that there is not enough information about the Metasploit framework on this material (sad because Metasploit is usually the exploit weapon of choice for the average penetration tester). Overall it is a good book worth every dollar. I expect the Backbox guys to follow up this material with a video tutorial.

Penetration Testing with BackBox: This tutorial will immerse you in the fascinating environment of penetration testing. Thoroughly practical and written for ease of understanding, it will give you the insights and knowledge you need to start using BackBox.

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