Overview
- Focuses on the three most powerful pentesting tools
- Integrates NMAP, OpenVAS, and Metasploit for efficient tests
- Covers Metrepreter
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The next chapter takes you on a detailed tour of Metasploit and its basic commands and configuration. You will then invoke NMAP and OpenVAS scans from Metasploit. Lastly, you will take a look at scanning services with Metasploit and get to know more about Meterpreter, an advanced, dynamically extensible payload that is extended over the network at runtime.
The final part of the book concludes by pentesting a system in a real-world scenario, where you will apply the skills you have learnt.
What You Will Learn
- Carry out basic scanning with NMAP
- Invoke NMAP from Python
- Use vulnerability scanning and reporting with OpenVAS
- Master common commands in Metasploit
Who This Book Is For
Readers new to penetration testing who would like to get a quick start on it.
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Book Title: Quick Start Guide to Penetration Testing
Book Subtitle: With NMAP, OpenVAS and Metasploit
Authors: Sagar Rahalkar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4270-4
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Sagar Rahalkar 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-4269-8Published: 30 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-4270-4Published: 29 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 139
Number of Illustrations: 127 b/w illustrations
Topics: Security, Systems and Data Security, Software Engineering