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Kali Linux cookbook / Willie L. Pritchett, David De Smet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pritchett, Willie L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Linux.
- Operating systems (Computers).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A practical, cookbook style with numerous chapters and recipes explaining the penetration testing. The cookbook-style recipes allow you to go directly to your topic of interest if you are an expert using this book as a reference, or to follow topics throughout a chapter to gain in-depth knowledge if you are a beginner.This book is ideal for anyone who wants to get up to speed with Kali Linux. It would also be an ideal book to use as a reference for seasoned penetration testers.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Kali Linux Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Up and Running with Kali Linux
- Introduction
- Installing to a hard disk drive
- Getting ready
- How to do it...
- Installing to a USB drive with persistent memory
- Installing in VirtualBox
- Installing VMware Tools
- How it works...
- Fixing the splash screen
- Starting network services
- Setting up the wireless network
- 2. Customizing Kali Linux
- Preparing kernel headers
- Installing Broadcom drivers
- Installing and configuring ATI video card drivers
- Installing and configuring nVidia video card drivers
- Applying updates and configuring extra security tools
- Setting up ProxyChains
- Directory encryption
- 3. Advanced Testing Lab
- Getting comfortable with VirtualBox
- There's more...
- Downloading Windows Targets
- Downloading Linux Targets
- Attacking WordPress and other applications
- Getting ready.
- How to do it...
- 4. Information Gathering
- Service enumeration
- Determining network range
- Identifying active machines
- Finding open ports
- How it works…
- Operating system fingerprinting
- Service fingerprinting
- Threat assessment with Maltego
- Mapping the network
- 5. Vulnerability Assessment
- Installing, configuring, and starting Nessus
- Nessus - finding local vulnerabilities
- Nessus - finding network vulnerabilities
- Nessus - finding Linux-specific vulnerabilities
- Nessus - finding Windows-specific vulnerabilities
- Installing, configuring, and starting OpenVAS
- Setting up an SSH script to start OpenVAS
- Using the OpenVAS Desktop
- OpenVAS - finding local vulnerabilities
- OpenVAS - finding network vulnerabilities
- OpenVAS - finding Linux-specific vulnerabilities
- OpenVAS - finding Windows-specific vulnerabilities
- 6. Exploiting Vulnerabilities
- Introduction.
- Installing and configuring Metasploitable
- Mastering Armitage, the graphical management tool for Metasploit
- See also
- Mastering the Metasploit Console (MSFCONSOLE)
- Mastering the Metasploit CLI (MSFCLI)
- Mastering Meterpreter
- Metasploitable MySQL
- Metasploitable PostgreSQL
- Metasploitable Tomcat
- Metasploitable PDF
- Implementing browser_autopwn
- 7. Escalating Privileges
- Using impersonation tokens
- Local privilege escalation attack
- Mastering the Social Engineering Toolkit (SET)
- Delivering your payload to the victim
- Collecting the victim's data
- Cleaning up the tracks
- Creating a persistent backdoor
- Man In The Middle (MITM) attack
- 8. Password Attacks
- Online password attacks
- Cracking HTTP passwords
- Gaining router access
- Types of modules
- Password profiling
- Cracking a Windows password using John the Ripper
- Using dictionary attacks
- Using rainbow tables
- Using nVidia Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA)
- Using ATI Stream
- Physical access attacks
- 9. Wireless Attacks
- Wireless network WEP cracking
- Wireless network WPA/WPA2 cracking
- Automating wireless network cracking
- Accessing clients using a fake AP
- URL traffic manipulation
- Port redirection
- Sniffing network traffic
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 6, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-78328-960-0
- OCLC:
- 861485353
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