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
SAVED.MONEY: 27 DOLLAR DISKCOUNT: 02 x 05MB
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