How can this book help you to get started or take your skills to the next level? Each chapter is designed to build on the previous one and to help you build your skills as a penetration tester from the ground up.
Chapter 1, establishes the methodologies around penetration testing.
Chapter 2, is your introduction to the various tools within the Metasploit Framework.
Chapter 3, shows you ways to leverage Metasploit in the reconnaissance phase of a penetration test.
Chapter 4, walks you through identifying vulnerabilities and leveraging vulnerability scanning technology.
Chapter 5, throws you into exploitation.
Chapter 6, walks you through the Swiss Army knife of post exploitation: Meterpreter.
Chapter 7, focuses on the underlying concepts of antivirus evasion techniques.
Chapter 8, covers client-side exploitation and browser bugs.
Chapter 9, walks you through auxiliary modules.
Chapter 10, is your guide to leveraging the Social-Engineer Toolkit in social-engineering attacks.
Chapter 11, offers a complete run down on Fast-Track, an automated penetration testing framework.
Chapter 12, shows you how to leverage Karmetasploit for wireless attacks.
Chapter 13, teaches you how to build your own exploitation module.
Chapter 14, covers fuzzing and creating exploit modules out of buffer overflows.
Chapter 15, is an in-depth look at how to port existing exploits into a Metasploit-based module.
Chapter 16, shows you how to create your own Meterpreter scripts.
Chapter 17, pulls everything together as it walks you through a simulated penetration test.