Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook - Second Edition: Practical recipes that combine strategies, attacks, and tools for advanced penetration testing

by Himanshu Sharma

Overview

Discover end-to-end penetration testing solutions to enhance your ethical hacking skills

Key Features

• Practical recipes to conduct effective penetration testing using the latest version of Kali Linux
• Leverage tools like Metasploit, Wireshark, Nmap, and more to detect vulnerabilities with ease
• Confidently perform networking and application attacks using task-oriented recipes

Book Description

Many organizations have been affected by recent cyber events. At the current rate of hacking, it has become more important than ever to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2018.4 / 2019), in addition to covering the core functionalities.

The book will get you off to a strong start by introducing you to the installation and configuration of Kali Linux, which will help you to perform your tests. You will also learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp and JexBoss. As you progress, you will get to grips with performing network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. The book will also help you delve into the technique of carrying out wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Later chapters will draw focus to the wide range of tools that help in forensics investigations and incident response mechanisms. As you wrap up the concluding chapters, you will learn to create an optimum quality pentest report.

By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the knowledge you need to conduct advanced penetration testing, thanks to the book's crisp and task-oriented recipes.

What you will learn

• Learn how to install, set up and customize Kali for pentesting on multiple platforms
• Pentest routers and embedded devices
• Get insights into fiddling around with software-defined radio
• Pwn and escalate through a corporate network
• Write good quality security reports
• Explore digital forensics and memory analysis with Kali Linux

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789952308
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	03/29/2019
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	472
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Himanshu Sharma has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many others. He has assisted international celebrities such as Harbajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts. He has been a speaker and trainer at international conferences such as Botconf 2013, CONFidence, RSA Singapore, LeHack, Hacktivity, Hack In the Box, and SEC-T. He also spoke at the IEEE Conference for Tedx. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowdsourced security platform.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Kali - An Introduction
2. Gather Intel and Plan Attack Strategies
3. Vulnerability Assessment: Poking for holes
4. Web App Exploitation: Beyond OWASP Top 10
5. Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation
6. Wireless Attacks: Getting Past aircrack-ng
7. Password Attacks: The Fault in Their Stars
8. Have Shell, Now What?
9. Buffer Overflows
10. Elementary, My Dear Watson - Digital Forensics
11. Playing with Software Defined Radios
12. Kali in your pocket-Nethunters and raspberries
13. Writing Reports