Ethical Hacking: A Hands-On Introduction to Breaking in

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This introduction to hacking covers everything you need to know to start your own journey to becoming an ethical hacker. With help from a lab setup that lets you hack along to each chapter, this book walks you through a variety of the most useful activities for any hacker. You'll begin by capturing and viewing a victim's traffic, then learn how to encrypt files and fake emails, and craft sophisticated social engineering attacks. In the later chapters, you'll learn how to fuzz, write trojans and rootkits, and perform website exploitation. Along the way, you'll develop a fundamental understanding of technologies like network protocols, websites, and the Linux operating system. You'll also work with tools used by professional penetration testers, such as Metasploit and Wireshark, and go from setting up a virtual lab environment for small scale hacks that could take place in a coffee shop to expanding this skill in order to take over an extensive corporate network. This manual is a must for any programmer interested in learning the fundamentals of designing their own hacking tools. It takes a deep dive into many topics, but uses beginner-friendly explanations for those just starting out. Exercises at the end of each chapter help expand on what's learned. Review: Best book available to learn Cyber Security - I initially purchased a few books, all pertaining to be for beginning. After reading the first chapter and putting into practice what it said I realised this is am amazing book. Most books talk about setting up a lab and supposedly walk you though setting up Kali Linux and possibly other bit may be given later. In this the author goes through step by step how to build the whole lab that you will use throughout the book. If you aren't sure about anything there is a discord channel with rooms for each chapter and other areas you may want to chat about. I have had similar things with other books but they haven't been utilised or offer the support they claim. I had a question which I posted and the author replied. Looking through the discord channel he often supports the readers/students. Each chapter gives background information and walks you through various tasks/examples. And the are parts you can use to challenge or test yourself. This is the best book I have come across and I would recommend you purchase it if you want to learn this subject. I use it along side TryHackMe and that works very well. But you could just use the book on its own. As you can guess I am impressed with this purchase and it is worth every penny. Review: Excellent - Excellent book, excellent delivery