What this book covers

Chapter 1, Starting Out with BackBox Linux, introduces BackBox Linux and the organization of the tools and services with a brief description of the tools included.

Chapter 2, Information Gathering, introduces us to a few ways of collecting useful information about the target system.

Chapter 3, Vulnerability Assessment and Management, explains how to perform vulnerability scans.

Chapter 4, Exploitations, uses the information we have collected in the previous chapters.

Chapter 5, Eavesdropping and Privilege Escalation, helps us in performing eavesdropping and privilege escalation on the target system where we already gained access by having obtained the access credentials in the previous chapter.

Chapter 6, Maintaining Access, helps us to set up backdoors in order to maintain access without repeating the steps covered in the previous chapters.

Chapter 7, Penetration Testing Methodologies with BackBox, helps us to perform a complete penetration test step-by-step, starting from information gathering to gaining access.

Chapter 8, Documentation and Reporting, explains how to create human-readable reports of our auditing tasks.