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Exploiting Targets

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The exploit phase of Kali Linux focuses on one key aspect: creating access to a target. In previous chapters, you learned how to identify the exploitable security flaws. There are a few good open source penetration testing tools that can easily automate the process of detecting and exploiting many security flaws to take over the target system. In this chapter, you will see how they work.

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Sinha, S. (2018). Exploiting Targets. In: Beginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linux. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3891-2_15

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