Linux Basics for Hackers by OccupyTheWeb -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication About the Author About the Technical Reviewer BRIEF CONTENTS CONTENTS IN DETAIL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION

What’s in This Book What Is Ethical Hacking? Why Hackers Use Linux Downloading Kali Linux Virtual Machines Setting Up Kali

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 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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