You're reading from The Ultimate Kali Linux Book - Second Edition

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818933

Pages 742 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

3. Chapter 2: Building a Penetration Testing Lab

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques

5. Section 2: Reconnaissance and Network Penetration Testing

6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting

7. Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering

8. Chapter 6: Performing Vulnerability Assessments

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Network Penetration Testing

10. Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing

11. Section 3: Red Teaming Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Advanced Network Penetration Testing — Post Exploitation

13. Chapter 10: Working with Active Directory Attacks

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Active Directory Attacks

15. Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics

16. Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

17. Section 4: Social Engineering and Web Application Attacks

18. Chapter 14: Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering

19. Chapter 15: Understanding Website Application Security

20. Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing

21. Chapter 17: Best Practices for the Real World

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Creating a Wi-Fi honeypot

As an aspiring penetration tester, you may be asked to conduct extensive wireless security testing for your company or a client organization. Creating a rogue access point with an interesting SSID (wireless network name), such as VIP_WiFi or Company-name_VIP, will lure employees to establish a connection.

When creating a rogue access point, the objective is to capture user credentials and sensitive information, as well as detecting any vulnerable wireless clients in an organization. The following are some tips to consider when deploying your rogue access point:

Choose a suitable location to ensure there is maximum coverage for potential victims.
De-authenticate clients from the real access point, causing them to create an association with the rogue access point.
Create a captive portal to capture user credentials.

To get started, we are going to use Airgeddon once more as it contains a lot of features and functions that will assist...