Learn Kali Linux 2019: Perform powerful penetration testing using Kali Linux, Metasploit, Nessus, Nmap, and Wireshark - Softcover

Glen D. Singh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1789611806 ISBN 13: 9781789611809

Verlag: Packt Publishing, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Explore the latest ethical hacking tools and techniques in Kali Linux 2019 to perform penetration testing from scratch

Key Features

• Get up and running with Kali Linux 2019.2
• Gain comprehensive insights into security concepts such as social engineering, wireless network exploitation, and web application attacks
• Learn to use Linux commands in the way ethical hackers do to gain control of your environment

Book Description

The current rise in hacking and security breaches makes it more important than ever to effectively pentest your environment, ensuring endpoint protection. This book will take you through the latest version of Kali Linux and help you use various tools and techniques to efficiently deal with crucial security aspects.

Through real-world examples, you'll understand how to set up a lab and later explore core penetration testing concepts. Throughout the course of this book, you'll get up to speed with gathering sensitive information and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux 2019. In later chapters, you'll gain insights into concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, exploitation of web applications and remote access connections to further build on your pentesting skills. You'll also focus on techniques such as bypassing controls, attacking the end user and maintaining persistence access through social media. Finally, this pentesting book covers best practices for performing complex penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment.

By the end of this book, you'll be able to use Kali Linux to detect vulnerabilities and secure your system by applying penetration testing techniques of varying complexity.

What you will learn

• Explore the fundamentals of ethical hacking
• Learn how to install and configure Kali Linux
• Get up to speed with performing wireless network pentesting
• Gain insights into passive and active information gathering
• Understand web application pentesting
• Decode WEP, WPA, and WPA2 encryptions using a variety of methods, such as the fake authentication attack, the ARP request replay attack, and the dictionary attack

Who this book is for

If you are an IT security professional or a security consultant who wants to get started with penetration testing using Kali Linux 2019.2, then this book is for you. The book will also help if you're simply looking to learn more about ethical hacking and various security breaches. Although prior knowledge of Kali Linux is not necessary, some understanding of cybersecurity will be useful.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Hacking
2. Setting up Kali - Part 1
3. Setting up Kali - Part 2
4. Getting Comfortable with Kali Linux 2019
5. Passive Information Gathering
6. Active Information Gathering
7. Working with Vulnerability Scanner
8. Understanding Network Penetration Testing
9. Network Penetration Testing - Pre Connection Attacks
10. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access
11. Network Penetration Testing - Post Connection Attacks
12. Network Penetration Testing - Detection & Security
13. Client Side Attacks - Social Engineering
14. Performing Website Penetration Testing
15. Website Penetration Testing-Gaining Access
16. Best Practices

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joshua Crumbaugh is the founder of PeopleSec and experienced penetration tester with an impressive background performing high end security assessments against high profile targets. He is also an expert social engineer who has talked his way into bank vaults, fortune 500 data centers, corporate offices, restricted areas of casinos and more. His experiences highlighted a significant need for a better ""human solution"" -- This led him to a passion in social engineering and better understanding ways to stop social engineering attacks 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1789611806
• ISBN 13: 9781789611809
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 550
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland