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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book

You're reading from The Ultimate Kali Linux Book Harness Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire for cutting-edge pentesting

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835085806

Length 828 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Ethical Hacking FREE CHAPTER

2. Building a Penetration Testing Lab

3. Setting Up for Advanced Penetration Testing Techniques

4. Passive Reconnaissance

5. Exploring Open-Source Intelligence

6. Active Reconnaissance

7. Performing Vulnerability Assessments

8. Understanding Network Penetration Testing

9. Performing Network Penetration Testing

10. Post-Exploitation Techniques

11. Delving into Command and Control Tactics

12. Working with Active Directory Attacks

13. Advanced Active Directory Attacks

14. Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

15. Social Engineering Attacks

16. Understanding Website Application Security

17. Advanced Website Penetration Testing

18. Best Practices for the Real World

19. Index

Appendix

Using web application scanners

As an aspiring penetration tester, you will also be required to perform web application security testing based on the scope of your penetration testing engagements. Web application security testing aims to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and security misconfigurations. In this section, you will learn how to use various types of web application scanners to identify and fingerprint web applications on a target server.

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WhatWeb

WhatWeb enables ethical hackers and penetration testers to identify and fingerprint the type of technologies that are running on web application servers. WhatWeb is pre-installed on Kali Linux and should be part of your arsenal of tools during your reconnaissance and vulnerability assessment phase.

To profile a targeted web server using WhatWeb, please use the following instructions:

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Authors (1)

Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.

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