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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

WPA3

Although the adoption of the third generation of WPA (WPA3) was introduced in January 2018 as a replacement for WPA2 to remedy the weaknesses of WPA2, it is not widely used. This standard utilizes 192-bit cryptographic strength and WPA3-Enterprise works with AES-256 in GCM mode with SHA-384 (Secure Hashing Algorithm) as Hash-Based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) and still enforces the use of CCMP-128 (Counter Mode Cipher Block Chaining Message Protocol), which is AES-128 (American Encryption Standard) in CCM mode and this is used as the minimum encryption algorithm in WPA3-Personal.

Unlike WPA2’s Pre-Shared Key (PSK), WPA3 utilizes Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE), also known as Dragonfly. One quite interesting paper written by Mathy Vanhoef (https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/usenix2021.pdf) outlines the design flaws in the IEEE Standard 802.11 relating to frame fragmentation, aggregation, and Forge attacks.

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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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