What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction, discusses the concept of ethical hacking and also covers basic information about the different fields of penetration testing.

Chapter 2, Setting Up a Lab, looks at setting up a lab and installing all the software that is needed in order to get started with penetration testing. We are going to discuss this because, all through this book, we are going to learn about launching attacks on our system by creating a virtual environment in it.

Chapter 3, Linux Basics, walks you through the Kali Linux environment so that you become familiar with the virtual framework. We will be learning some basic commands, as well as looking at the installation and updating of software.

Chapter 4, Network Penetration ...

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