Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Corporate Network and Database Exploitation

I n the previous chapter, we had the opportunity to learn how to attack and secure the Linux infrastructure. Now, it's time to expand our skills and gain the required knowledge and hands-on expertise for penetrating corporate networks and databases.

The topics that are covered in this chapter are:

• Advanced topics in network scanning
• Insecure SNMP configuration
• Database server exploitations

Before getting in too deep, let's get started with some basics.