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Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888427
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
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Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Beginning with Kali Linux 2. Penetration Testing Methodology FREE CHAPTER 3. Target Scoping 4. Information Gathering 5. Target Discovery 6. Enumerating Target 7. Vulnerability Mapping 8. Social Engineering 9. Target Exploitation 10. Privilege Escalation 11. Maintaining Access 12. Wireless Penetration Testing 13. Kali Nethunter 14. Documentation and Reporting Supplementary Tools Key Resources Index

Fuzz analysis


Fuzz analysis is a software-testing technique used by auditors and developers to test their applications against unexpected, invalid, and random sets of data input. The response will then be noticed in terms of an exception or a crash thrown by these applications. This activity uncovers some of the major vulnerabilities in the software, which are not possible to discover otherwise. These include buffer overflows, format strings, code injections, dangling pointers, race conditions, denial of service conditions, and many other types of vulnerabilities.

There are different classes of fuzzers available in Kali Linux, which can be used to test the file formats, network protocols, command-line inputs, environmental variables, and web applications. Any untrusted source of data input is considered to be insecure and inconsistent. For instance, a trust boundary between the application and the Internet user is unpredictable. Thus, all the data inputs should be fuzzed and verified against...

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