July 2018
Beginner
564 pages
12h 22m
English
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Network Penetration Testing
In this chapter, we will cover all of the concepts that will be needed to get started with network penetration testing. We will start off with what a network is, and see two types of networks: wired and wireless. Later, we will see how to connect a wireless adapter to a virtual machine. After that, we will look at what a MAC address is also, steps to change a MAC address. Finally, we will see methods for activating the monitor mode.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- What is a network?
- Network basics
- Connecting to a wireless adapter
- MAC addresses
- Wireless modes – managed and monitor
- Enabling monitor mode manually
- Enabling monitor mode using airmon-ng