Penetration Testing with BackBox

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Perform reconnaissance and collect information about an unknown system
• Perform vulnerability scanning, management, and assessment, as well as understand false positives
• Understand how SQL injection attacks work and find injectable pages on a web server
• Sniff the network to capture sensitive data and learn different methods of privilege escalation
• Maintain permanent access on a target server once access is initially granted
• Use exploitation tools like Metasploit to exploit the reported vulnerabilities
• Learn how to document and generate reports from the entire auditing process

Who this book is for