Key Features
Book Description
This practical book outlines the steps needed to perform penetration testing using BackBox. It explains common penetration testing scenarios and gives practical explanations applicable to a real-world setting. This book is written primarily for security experts and system administrators who have an intermediate Linux capability. However, because of the simplicity and user-friendly design, it is also suitable for beginners looking to understand the principle steps of penetration testing.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
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