PACKT PENETRATION TESTING WITH BACKBOX 2014 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: PENETRATION TESTING WITH BACKBOX

PUBLISHER: PACKT LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/7JCnn2 RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2014.06.21

ISBN: 9781783282975 STORE DATE: 2014

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AUTHOR: STEFAN UMIT UYGUR



BOOK



An introductory guide to performing crucial penetration testing

operations using Backbox



Overview

* Experience the real world of penetration testing with Backbox

Linux using live, practical examples * Gain an insight into

auditing and penetration testing processes by reading though live

sessions * Learn how to carry out your own testing using the

latest techniques and methodologies

In Detail



BackBox is an amazing Linux security distribution designed to

keep in mind the needs of security and system administration

specialists. It has been developed to perform penetration tests

and security assessments. Designed to be fast and easy to use

while providing a minimal yet complete desktop environment

Backbox comes with its own software repositories and is

continually updated to the latest stable version of the most

widely used and best-known ethical hacking tools



This book provides an exciting introduction to BackBox Linux in

order give you familiarity with and understanding of this amazing

Linux security distro, making you feel comfortable with both the

subject of pen-testing and BackBox. The book progresses through

topics based on standard cases of penetration testing from the

initial steps to the final procedures



This book will help you discover the exciting world of

penetration testing through a series of step-by-step, practical

lessons. Penetration Testing with BackBox is organized into eight

chapters. Starting with an introduction to BackBox Linux in order

to give you a solid grounding of this amazing Linux security

distro, including both its design philosophy and feature set

before moving on to practical tutorials in using BackBox. The

book is arranged in a chronological order based on standard cases

of penetration testing. For those more experienced in the use of

penetration testing tools, each chapter can be read

independently, providing a detailed overview of how BackBox will

augment your arsenal of tools at each step of the penetration

testing process



Throughout this book, you will be given a clear picture of IT

security cases by having one of the most popular topics of

penetration testing demonstrated in a user-friendly way. By the

end of the book, you will have learned all the fundamental skills

needed to use BackBox for ethical hacking



What you will learn from this book

* 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

Approach



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



Who this book is written for



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