BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
Language: English
Pages: 392
ISBN: 1849513945
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Master the art of penetration testing with BackTrack Learn the black-art of penetration testing with in-depth coverage of BackTrack Linux distribution Explore the insights and importance of testing your corporate network systems before hackers strike it Understand the practical spectrum of security tools by their exemplary usage, configuration, and benefits Fully illustrated with practical examples, step-by-step instructions, and useful tips to cover the best-of-breed security assessment tools In Detail BackTrack is a penetration testing and security auditing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit any vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. Applying appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan will result in robust penetration testing of your network. BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating the cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques in a coherent step-by-step strategy. It offers all the essential lab preparation and testing procedures to reflect real-world attack scenarios from your business perspective in today's digital age. The authors' experience and expertise enables them to reveal the industry's best approach for logical and systematic penetration testing. The first and so far only book on BackTrack OS starts with lab preparation and testing procedures, explaining the basic installation and configuration set up, discussing types of penetration testing (black-box and white-box), uncovering open security testing methodologies, and proposing the BackTrack specific testing process. The authors discuss a number of security assessment tools necessary to conduct penetration testing in their respective categories (target scoping, information gathering, discovery, enumeration, vulnerability mapp
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Most stable version of the software. Then we look at how to install additional information security tools not included by default in BackTrack 4. At the end of the chapter, we discussed a method to create a customized BackTrack. This section is useful if you want to create your own version of BackTrack. In the next chapter, we will look at the penetration testing methodology. [ 35 ] Penetration Testing Methodology Penetration Testing, sometimes abbreviated as PenTest, is a process that is.
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Is from the remote machine. In the first packet, the flag is set to null, and the remote machine responds with reset. Nmap interprets this response as that the port 25 on the remote system is in the open | filtered state. Nmap output options The Nmap result can be saved to an external file. Nmap supports several output formats: • Interactive output: This is a default output format and the result is sent to the standard output. • Normal output (-oN filename): This format is similar to.
Address: 0A:00:27:00:00:00 (Unknown) Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 17.13 seconds By utilizing 4 NSE scripts related to HTTP, we gain more information regarding the target system webserver: • It has TRACE method [ 146 ] Chapter 6 • It uses Apache version 2.2.15 on openSUSE Linux system • The directory /icons on the web server is accessible to you After discussing Nmap, let's discuss another port scanner tool. Unicornscan Unicornscan is an information gathering and.
Extracting it to the appropriate folder. As the VMWare image is compressed in a ZIP format, you can use any software that can extract a ZIP file. Also make sure you have already installed and configured the VirtualBox suitable for your operating system. Before you can use the image directly in VirtualBox, you need to perform several additional steps: • Add the VMWare image file so it will be available to the virtual machine operating system. This can be done by opening File - Virtual Media.