Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

Make the most of Bash shell and Kali Linux's command line based security assessment tools.

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Keith M.

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|Sep 2025

E-Book €14.99Institutions €106.95

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Book Description

An easy-to-understand, step-by-step practical guide that shows you how to use the Linux Bash terminal tools to solve information security problems. If you are a penetration tester, system administrator, or developer who would like an enriching and practical introduction to the Bash shell and Kali Linux command-line-based tools, this is the book for you.

What you will learn

Perform network enumeration techniques with Dig, whois, dnsenum, dnsmap, and others
Learn how to fuzz and reverse engineer using the Kali Linux command line tools
Exploit common web application vulnerabilities using skipfish, arcachi, and sqlmap
Accomplish maninthemiddle attacks straight from your command line
Assess SSL security using sslyze and openssl
Carry out network traffic analysis using tcpdump

Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

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