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You're reading from Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook End-to-end penetration testing solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787121829

Length 376 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Himanshu Sharma

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Kali – An Introduction

2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies FREE CHAPTER

3. Vulnerability Assessment

4. Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10

5. Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation

6. Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Introduction

7. Password Attacks – The Fault in Their Stars

8. Have Shell Now What?

9. Buffer Overflows

10. Playing with Software-Defined Radios

11. Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries

12. Writing Reports

Configuring the KDE environment

KDE is an international community for free software. The plasma desktop is one of the most popular projects of KDE; it comes as a default desktop environment for a lot of Linux distributions. It was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich.

How to do it...

To configure the KDE environment follow the given steps:

We use the following command to install KDE:

        apt-get install kali-defaults kali-root-login desktop-base
        kde-plasma-desktop

The following screenshot shows the output for the preceding command:

Type Y when it asks for confirmation on additional space requirements.
Click OK on both the windows that pop up.
When the installation is complete we open a Terminal window and type the following command:

        update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

The following screenshot shows the output for the preceding command:

Choose the option KDE session (in our case 2) and press Enter.
Log out and log in again and we will see the KDE environment:

Kali already has provided prebuilt images of different desktop environments. These can be downloaded from here: https://www.kali.org/downloads/.

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Authors (1)

Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma has been in the field of security since 2009 and has been listed in the halls of fame of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and many more. He has helped celebrities such as Harbhajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts. He has been a speaker at various conferences worldwide such as BotConf, CONFidence, Hack In the Box, SINCON, Sec-T, Hackcon, and numerous others. Currently, he is the co-founder of BugsBounty. He also authored multiple bestsellers titled "Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook", " Hands-On Red Team Tactics" and "Hands-On Web Pentesting with Metasploit."

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