Linux Basics for Hackers Getting Started with Networking Scripting and Security in Kali 1st Edition by No Starch Press ISBN 9781593278564 159327856X

1 GETTING STARTED WITH THE BASICS

Introductory Terms and Concepts

A Tour of Kali

Basic Commands in Linux

Finding Stuff

Modifying Files and Directories

Go Play Now!

Exercises

2 TEXT MANIPULATION

Viewing Files

Filtering Text with grep

Using sed to Find and Replace

Viewing Files with more and less

Summary

Exercises

3 ANALYZING AND MANAGING NETWORKS

Analyzing Networks with ifconfig

Checking Wireless Network Devices with iwconfig

Changing Your Network Information

Manipulating the Domain Name System

Summary

Exercises

4 ADDING AND REMOVING SOFTWARE

Using apt to Handle Software

Adding Repositories to Your sources.list File

Using a GUI-based Installer

Installing Software with git

Summary

Exercises

5 CONTROLLING FILE AND DIRECTORY PERMISSIONS

Different Types of Users

Granting Permissions

Checking Permissions

Changing Permissions

Setting More Secure Default Permissions with Masks

Special Permissions

Summary

Exercises

6 PROCESS MANAGEMENT

Viewing Processes

Managing Processes

Scheduling Processes

Summary

Exercises

7 MANAGING USER ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

Viewing and Modifying Environment Variables

Changing Your Shell Prompt

Changing Your PATH

Creating a User-Defined Variable

Summary

Exercises

8 BASH SCRIPTING

A Crash Course in Bash

Your First Script: “Hello, Hackers-Arise!”

Your Very First Hacker Script: Scan for Open Ports

Common Built-in Bash Commands

Summary

Exercises

9 COMPRESSING AND ARCHIVING

What Is Compression?

Tarring Files Together

Compressing Files

Creating Bit-by-Bit or Physical Copies of Storage Devices

Summary

Exercises

10 FILESYSTEM AND STORAGE DEVICE MANAGEMENT

The Device Directory /dev

Mounting and Unmounting

Monitoring Filesystems

Summary

Exercises

11 THE LOGGING SYSTEM

The rsyslog Logging Daemon

Automatically Cleaning Up Logs with logrotate

Remaining Stealthy

Summary

Exercises

12 USING AND ABUSING SERVICES

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Services

Creating an HTTP Web Server with the Apache Web Server

OpenSSH and the Raspberry Spy Pi

Extracting Information from MySQL/MariaDB

Summary

Exercises

13 BECOMING SECURE AND ANONYMOUS

How the Internet Gives Us Away

The Onion Router System

Proxy Servers

Virtual Private Networks

Encrypted Email

Summary

Exercises

14 UNDERSTANDING AND INSPECTING WIRELESS NETWORKS

Wi-Fi Networks

Detecting and Connecting to Bluetooth

Summary

Exercises

15 MANAGING THE LINUX KERNEL AND LOADABLE KERNEL MODULES

What Is a Kernel Module?

Checking the Kernel Version

Kernel Tuning with sysctl

Managing Kernel Modules

Summary

Exercises

16 AUTOMATING TASKS WITH JOB SCHEDULING

Scheduling an Event or Job to Run on an Automatic Basis

Using rc Scripts to Run Jobs at Startup

Adding Services to Your Bootup via a GUI

Summary

Exercises

17 PYTHON SCRIPTING BASICS FOR HACKERS

Adding Python Modules

Getting Started Scripting with Python

Lists

Modules

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

Network Communications in Python

Dictionaries, Loops, and Control Statements

Improving Our Hacking Scripts

Exceptions and Password Crackers

Summary

Exercises

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