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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 LXDE environment

LXDE is a free open source environment written in C using GTK+ toolkit for Unix and other POSIX platforms. Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE) is the default environment for many operating systems such as Knoppix, Raspbian, Lubuntu, and so on.

How to do it...

To configure the LXDE environment follow the given steps:

We start by using the following command to install LXDE:

        apt-get install lxde-core lxde

Type Y when it asks for confirmation on additional space requirements.
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 lxsession (in our case 4) and press Enter.

Log out and log in again and we will see the LXDE environment:

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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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