Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

by Makan, Keith

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In Detail This book teaches you to take your problem solving capabilities to the next level with the Bash shell, to assess network and application level security by leveraging the power of the command-line tools available with Kali Linux. The book begins by introducing some of the fundamental bash scripting and information processing tools. Building on this, the next few chapters focus on detailing ways to customize your Bash shell using functionalities such as tab completion and rich text form…

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  • Full title :Penetration Testing with the Bash shell.

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In Detail This book teaches you to take your problem solving capabilities to the next level with the Bash shell, to assess network and application level security by leveraging the power of the command-line tools available with Kali Linux. The book begins by introducing some of the fundamental bash scripting and information processing tools. Building on this, the next few chapters focus on detailing ways to customize your Bash shell using functionalities such as tab completion and rich text formatting. After the fundamental customization techniques and general purpose tools have been discussed, the book breaks into topics such as the command-line-based security tools in the Kali Linux operating system. The general approach in discussing these tools is to involve general purpose tools discussed in previous chapters to integrate security assessment tools. This is a one stop solution to learn Bash and solve information security problems. Approach 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. Who this book is for 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.

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  • Publication Date:2014.

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  • Description:1 online resource

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  • ISBN:1306823404, 9781306823401, 9781849695114, 1849695113, 1849695105, 9781849695107
  • oclc:ocn881035340
  • LC Classification:T55.4-60.8
  • Dewey Decimal:005.8092

Table of Contents

Cover; Copyright; Credits; Disclaimer; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting to Know Bash; Getting help from the man pages; Navigating and searching the filesystem; Navigating directories; Listing directory contents; Searching the filesystem; Directory traversal options; File testing options; File action options; Using I/O redirection; Redirecting output; Redirecting input; Using pipes; Getting to know grep; Regular expression language -- a crash course; Regular expression matcher selection options; Regular expression matching control options.

Output control optionsFile selection options; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 2: Customizing Your Shell; Formatting the terminal output; The prompt string; Prompt string customizations; Aliases; Customizing the command history; Protecting sensitive information from leakage; Customizing tab completion; Summary; Further reading; Chapter 3: Network Reconnaissance; Interrogating the Whois servers; Interrogating the DNS servers; Using Dig; Using dnsmap; Enumerating targets on the local network; Host discovery with Arping; Target enumeration with Nmap; Summary; Further reading.

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Examinations Penetration testing (Computer security) Penetration testing (Computer security)… Tests d'intrusion -- Examens User interfaces (Computer systems) -- D…

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Makan, Keith

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