Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit

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Title: Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit
Description: Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This book provides both the art and the science. The authors of the book are expert penetration testers who have developed many of the leading pen testing tools; such as the Metasploit framework. The authors allow the reader'inside their heads to unravel the mysteries of thins like identifying targets, enumerating hosts, application fingerprinting, cracking passwords, and attacking exposed vulnerabilities. Along the way, the authors provide an invaluable reference to the hundreds of tools included on the bootable-Linux CD for penetration testing.• Covers both the methodology of penetration testing and all of the tools used by malicious hackers and penetration testers • The book is authored by many of the tool developers themselves • This is the only book that comes packaged with the'Auditor Security Collection'; a bootable Linux CD with over 300 of the most popular open source penetration testing tools
Authors: Jeremy Faircloth, Jay Beale, Roelof Temmingh, Haroon Meer, Charl van der Walt, HD Moore
Resource Type: eBook.
Subjects: Open source software, Computers--Access control, Computer security, Database security, Web servers--Security measures, Computer networks--Security measures
Categories: COMPUTERS / Computer Science, COMPUTERS / Security / General
Database: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
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Abstract:Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This book provides both the art and the science. The authors of the book are expert penetration testers who have developed many of the leading pen testing tools; such as the Metasploit framework. The authors allow the reader'inside their heads to unravel the mysteries of thins like identifying targets, enumerating hosts, application fingerprinting, cracking passwords, and attacking exposed vulnerabilities. Along the way, the authors provide an invaluable reference to the hundreds of tools included on the bootable-Linux CD for penetration testing.• Covers both the methodology of penetration testing and all of the tools used by malicious hackers and penetration testers • The book is authored by many of the tool developers themselves • This is the only book that comes packaged with the'Auditor Security Collection'; a bootable Linux CD with over 300 of the most popular open source penetration testing tools
ISBN:9781597490214
9780080489520