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With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux — Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach.

This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age. Style and approach This practical guide will showcase penetration testing through cutting-edge tools and techniques using a coherent, step-by-step approach.

Hacking with Kali introduces you the most current distribution of the de facto standard tool for Linux pen testing. Starting with use of the Kali live CD and progressing through installation on hard drives, thumb drives and SD cards, author James Broad walks you through creating a custom version of the Kali live distribution.

Once you're familiar with the basic components of the software, you'll learn how to use Kali through the phases of the penetration testing lifecycle; one major tool from each phase is explained. The book culminates with a chapter on reporting that will provide examples of documents used prior to, during and after the pen test. This guide will benefit information security professionals of all levels, hackers, systems administrators, network administrators, and beginning and intermediate professional pen testers, as well as students majoring in information security.

Provides detailed explanations of the complete penetration testing lifecycle Complete linkage of the Kali information, resources and distribution downloads Hands-on exercises reinforce topics. The current trend of various hacking and security breaches displays how important it has become to pentest your environment, to ensure end point protection. This book will take you through the latest version of Kali Linux to efficiently deal with various crucial security aspects such as confidentiality, integrity, access control and authentication.

This guidebook is going to provide us with all of the information that we need to know about Hacking with Linux. Many people worry that hacking is a bad process and that it is not the right option for them. The good news here is that hacking can work well for not only taking information and harming others but also for helping you keep your own network and personal information as safe as possible.

Inside this guidebook, we are going to take some time to explore the world of hacking, and why the Kali Linux system is one of the best to help you get this done. We explore the different types of hacking, and why it is beneficial to learn some of the techniques that are needed to perform your own hacks and to see the results that we want with our own networks.

In this guidebook, we will take a look at a lot of the different topics and techniques that we need to know when it comes to working with hacking on the Linux system. Some of the topics that we are going to take a look at here include: The different types of hackers that we may encounter and how they are similar and different. How to install the Kali Linux onto your operating system to get started. The basics of cybersecurity, web security, and cyberattacks and how these can affect your computer system and how a hacker will try to use you.

The different types of malware that hackers can use against you. How a man in the middle, DoS, Trojans, viruses, and phishing can all be tools of the hacker. And so much more. Hacking is often an option that most people will not consider because they worry that it is going to be evil, or that it is only used to harm others. But as we will discuss in this guidebook, there is so much more to the process than this.

Get started in white-hat ethical hacking using Kali Linux. This book starts off by giving you an overview of security trends, where you will learn the OSI security architecture. When you have finished the examples in the first part of your book, you will have all you need to carry out safe and ethical hacking experiments. After an introduction to Kali Linux, you will carry out your first penetration tests with Python and code raw binary packets for use in those tests.

Along the way you will discover effective ways to collect important information, track email, and use important tools such as DMITRY and Maltego, as well as take a look at the five phases of penetration testing. The coverage of vulnerability analysis includes sniffing and spoofing, why ARP poisoning is a threat, how SniffJoke prevents poisoning, how to analyze protocols with Wireshark, and using sniffing packets with Scapy. The next part of the book shows you detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities, using sqlmap, and applying brute force or password attacks.

The book will explain the information assurance model and the hacking framework Metasploit, taking you through important commands, exploit and payload basics. Moving on to hashes and passwords you will learn password testing and hacking techniques with John the Ripper and Rainbow. You will then dive into classic and modern encryption techniques where you will learn the conventional cryptosystem.

In the final chapter you will acquire the skill of exploiting remote Windows and Linux systems and you will learn how to own a target completely.

NOW at 26,95 instead of Are you interested to learn the art of hacking? This book explains Hacking using an operating system that is created for this sole purpose. As a hacker one needs to understand basic Linux commands along with bash and python scripting. This book has provided a lot of bash and python examples that will make you start with the hacking scripting. Do you will learn, also, to safeguard your systems, equipment, and network against hacking attacks. Keen readers will, by the end of this book, understand how their systems work, how to scan, and how to gain access to your computer.

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For the reasons described above, I select- items need to support the xserver GUI ed OpenVAS as the scanning tool for this proof of apt-get install iceweasel — installs the concept. No one system will be one hundred per- default browser cent effective all of the time.

Certain vulnerabilities will be missed while some false-positives may be reported. The important thing is we are using the tool as the new Kali system would be deployed to perform part of an overall security effort. A more attractive the network vulnerability scans. With so many ca- option would be to deploy multiple scanning tools to pabilities packed into this Linux security distro, validate the results and cover gaps that exist from there was no shortage of options.

For the purposes of this Running startx from the command prompt cranks phase of the project, we will stick to using a single up the desktop interface. Even if we will not normal- tool for scanning and reporting.

I ran my out-of-the-box OpenVAS install from the Be prepared to grab a cup of coffee when first start- desktop and fired up the setup script included with ing the graphic interface. The slower processing the GUI menu options.

After several attempts to power of the Raspberry box takes a few minutes to configure and run scans with no luck, I decided to load the desktop the first time. Patience is rewarded pursue a different course of action. While time- have expressed written permission to perform any consuming, the script checks out all parts of the penetration tests, vulnerability scans, or enumer- OpenVAS system and updates as necessary. I had ation of network services and host information. For test- ing purposes, I have used my home network and Listing 2.

Enough said about that. The tasks can be scheduled and leverage openvas-scapdata-sync update SCAP feed Escalators, such as send an email when the task openvas-certdata-sync update CERT feed is complete. This can be a single Target con- openvasad starts the OpenVAS Administrator figuration for a simple network or multiple servers, gsad starts the Greenbone Security Assistant workstations, network devices.

Multiple targets would be useful when it is desirable to customize the level of scanning based on different device types. Scan Configs — preset vulnerability scan con- figurations using different levels of scanning tech- niques. As the more intrusive configs can bring down hosts, use caution when making decisions on how and when to run the scans.

For this exercise, I set up three separate scan targets — our workstation network, our server net- work, and one for my work computer. For each of these I used the Full and Fast scan option. This Figure 2. Migrating the database was the least invasive of the default set of scan configurations. Several tabs at the bottom To double-check for listening services, I ran the of the application window delineate the various ar- command: netstat -A inet —ntlp.

As the OpenVAS eas for configuration. The time required to perform the ceeded with testing Figure 3. Just to get an idea of the traffic generated during a scan, I ran Wireshark on my laptop to watch the vulnerability scans. Fur- ther analysis of the packets would reveal the mag- ic behind the scanning process Figure 4. Checking listening ports for the openvasmd service berry Pi is underwhelming in this application. This is not unexpected actually and, to a certain degree, Setting up the Scans insignificant.

While the speed of the scans could The obligatory disclaimer: I am not an attorney; be increased by using faster hardware, we desire however, I used to work for some. Be sure you inexpensive and good enough.

While scanning, www. Further performance gains would be real- this port to look up various services running on a re- ized by running OpenVAS from the command line mote computer and is used for remote management only and not from the GUI. In a distributed scanner of the device. Analyzing the Results Once the scan s were finished, it was time to eval- uate the results. In this case, we will look at a scan on my work laptop a Windows 7 computer. The Host Summary area of the report provides a high-level view of the number of vulnerabilities de- tected and the threat level — High, Medium, or Low.

More in- vasive scans would likely show more threats at the A potential remediation could be to modify the fire- expense of time and higher network activity. For the wall rules on the Windows computer to only allow test scan, the results show zero High level threats, IP packets sourcing from servers and administrative two Medium and seven Low level. A port summary workstations. This would reduce the attack vector of the detected threats is shown Figure 5.

A comprehensive reme- threat to determine a remediation plan for the cli- diation plan would use a similar approach to ana- ent. A bit of re- of scanning and remediating identified problems will Figure 4. Summary Figure 6. The business case for this so- scanners. This allows for the Greenbone Security lution is to provide value-added consulting services Desktop and the underlying OpenVAS components to our medical clients and reduce risk as part of a to perform the heavy lifting of the remote scanning.

The ex- The advantage of this capability is using a single in- periences outlined here demonstrate that Raspber- terface for scheduling scans and reporting. As is to be expected with the entire system. The distributed aspect of the solu- an open source project, more effort and technical tion will allow my security consulting service to scale knowledge is required to deploy and maintain the efficiently without unneeded visits to client sites.

The end goal is to rectly with our managed services team to implement have a completely automated and low-cost scanning the remediations. While certainly a great feature, the solution where all parties have direct access to the problem with the solution is requiring multiple VPN reports for compliance and remediation purposes. This proof of concept using Kali shows that the end This risk can be mitigated by using a DMZ for the goal is certainly within reach. Leveraging on-demand VPN con- Covered Entity — a healthcare provider, a health nections in conjunction with an idle timeout would be plan, or healthcare clearinghouse.

Business Associate — a person or entity that per- forms certain functions or activities that involve the Note use or disclosure of protected health information on Due to the timeline for writing this article, the remote behalf of, or provides services to, a covered entity.

Electronic Protected Health Information e-PHI — individually identifiable health information is Future enhancements that which can be linked to a particular person. As with any project like this, there is always room Common identifiers of health information include for improvement. Future requirements to increase names, social security numbers, addresses, and remote system capabilities will likely push beyond birth dates.

His speeds and more memory than the RPi. As these background in technology began with an devices use the same processor family as RPi, it early curiosity and passion for computing is expected Kali ARM support will enable use of with a Commodore 64 at the age of twelve. A hobby turned these more capable hardware systems. A life-long learner, Charlie maintains the same curi- ing history of network activity in the event of a osity and passion for technology now in a career spanning if- breach, teen years.

Some are using the technology for the good purpose and some are using it for bad purposes and Internet is one of those technologies which define both my statements. Internet is being used both by the good the White Hats and the bad the Black Hats. I n the depth of crisis, hacking over the Internet is still the very big problem, because the rate of Now this question must come in the minds of the technology is increasing day by day and every- people that what is Kali Linux.

Let me just clear this one here is for earning money. In that case some concept that Kali Linux is a complete re-building of earn the money through bad methods or some the Backtrack Linux distributions which is based by good methods. Now Kali Linux is an ad- people earning money with bad methodologies.

So that anyone can down- bug bounties in which hackers from all over the load from the Internet. To find Some of the features that makes Kali much more out those bugs hackers have to use some meth- compatible and useful than any other Linux distri- odologies either based on command line or GUI butions.

Now Kali Linux is very any website or web apps. Just reject the folders. Just look at the top-right corner of the window it will Let us have a close look to Kali now. A survey to Kali Linux Now moving on to the next, the very first task The outer look of Kali is pretty much different from when you enter into the Kali is to check whether any other Linux distributions like backtrack.

The the Internet connection is working fine or not. Be- default username and password to enter into the low in the snapshot just look at the cursor at the Kali is same as that of backtrack — username — top right corner showing the wired network which root and password — toor Figure 1. In win- dows there is a command prompt from where the whole system can be assessable, in Linux there is something called as terminal which is a based upon the command line interface from where the whole system can be viewed.

The login panel of Kali Figure 2. The desktop Figure 4. Showing the path to open the terminal Figure 3. Showing the Internet connectivity Figure 5. The terminal — a command line interface www. Shows Apache is successfully running Figure 9.

Changing root default password Figure 8. Showing to open the Firefox browser Figure Now these are some of the most important com- mands which will help any user in the further Now the main task is to gather the IP Internet process. Now let us just get back to our main Protocol address which is a bit unique num- motive but before irst let me make everyone fa- ber and is being assigned to everyone.

The best miliar with some of the terminologies which will method is to ping a website and gather the IP ad- help everyone to understand the basic concept dress. Although the ping is used for checking the behind the scene. Now it is not possible for me also to explore each and every tool in the tool list but what I am going to do here is sticking to the main concept and will going to show the main tools which will make a person familiar with the Kali and it will also make them free to use the tools of their own.

Information gathering Figure Acquiring the IP address of a particular website the very first step in order to gather each and ev- ery information about the target, only then a tes- ter can examine the whole bunch of vulnerabili- ties and can patch them easily and safely. Now the major source of gathering the information is Google which is an open source and is available for each person.

For an instance — making a phone call to a friend working in the target company and gathering the information by spooing your own friend. Options in Dmitry www. The tool that I am using here is tive hosts on the network. Running Dmitry against Google Figure Invoking the nmap in the terminal Figure Results of the Dmitry scan Figure Command used is: namp ly contains the database of the exploit codes which -sT IPaddress Figure Now in this particular phase I am going to exploit my own WIN-7 just to show how the exploitation can be done through Kali Linux in much faster way than Backtrack.

Before going deep into the exploitation let me clear some of the basic terminologies so that there should be no confusion while going through attack- ing phase. Invoking the Metasploit Terminal curity. System through the vulnerabili- ty. Generating a payload for back connection tion actually made to bypass the restrictions that the irewall has applied on the open ports. A irewall actually blocks the incoming trafic through the open ports but could not block the outgoing trafic.

So, the attacker use this way to bypass the security restrictions. Executing the exploit to run www. By this step of hacking an attacker can come payload which will help to create a back con- to the gained system anytime even if the service nection, and in order to create a payload enter he exploited is patched.

Some hackers do it for Maintaining Access the sake of fun or some do it for the sake of tak- Maintaining Access is an important phase after ing revenge. Therefore, KALI is the solution of all gaining the access to any computer system. In these answers. Kali can be used as an OS for this step the attacker leaves himself an easier penetration testing which could help the security Figure Executing the payload Figure Setting up the exploit in msfconsole Figure Currently, he is pursuing his B.

He has delivered his knowledge through Seminars and Workshops across India. He found and reported many vulnerabilities and phishing scams to IT Dept. He aims to get applauses from oth- researchers and analysts to find out the bugs in er experts of IT industry for his research work on IT Security.

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