"Practical Intrusion Analysis" is a comprehensive guide to intrusion detection, expanding beyond traditional vendor-specific focuses. The book covers intrusion detection systems (IDS), exploring signature-based and anomaly-based approaches using Snort and Bro as examples. It also examines network infrastructure monitoring, including packet sniffing and network flow analysis (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX). Furthermore, the text explores web application firewalls (WAFs), wireless IDS/IPS, physical securi...
Feb 08, 2025•21 min
The Book excerpts are from a book on practical binary analysis. It explains the challenges of analyzing binaries, such as the lack of high-level abstractions and the mixing of code and data. The book covers different binary formats (ELF and PE), detailing their structures and how to examine them using tools like objdump and readelf. It explores static and dynamic disassembly techniques, including using tools like IDA Pro and GDB, and introduces advanced concepts such as taint analysis and symbol...
Feb 08, 2025•24 min
This Book excerpt for the WebdriverIO automation framework, written for software testers. It covers installation and configuration, locating elements using various selectors, performing browser actions (navigation, screenshots, alerts), implementing waits and timeouts for robust testing, and utilizing assertion libraries for validation. The book also explores advanced topics like handling shadow DOMs, and working with cookies and geolocation. Finally, it compares different testing frameworks and...
Feb 08, 2025•28 min
This Book is an excerpt from Practical Vulnerability Management: A Strategic Approach to Managing Cyber Risk by Andrew Magnusson, a guide for improving an organization’s computer security. The book provides a step-by-step approach for setting up and maintaining an effective vulnerability management system. It includes details about gathering information from various sources, using scanning tools like OpenVAS and Nmap, and automating tasks such as data analysis, reporting, and database maintenanc...
Feb 07, 2025•21 min
The provided Book "Practical Rust Web Projects: Building Cloud and Web-Based Applications" discuss various ways to develop web applications using the Rust programming language. The book starts by introducing basic web development concepts using the actix-web framework and explores different approaches for building websites, including server-side rendering, REST APIs, and WebSockets. It then dives into serverless computing using AWS Lambda and DynamoDB, demonstrating how to deploy Rust applicatio...
Feb 07, 2025•25 min
The Book provides a comprehensive guide to packet analysis, a crucial skill for network administrators and security professionals. It explains the fundamentals of network communication, the various layers of the OSI model, and the functions of common network protocols, such as TCP, UDP, DNS, and HTTP. The guide also explores how packet analysis is used to diagnose and solve problems like slow network performance, security vulnerabilities, and misconfigured devices. It goes beyond the basics, cov...
Feb 07, 2025•25 min
This Book, Practical Mobile Forensics, is a comprehensive guide to investigating mobile devices. It covers the acquisition, analysis, and recovery of data from iOS, Android, and Windows Phone devices. The book provides detailed information on the inner workings of each mobile platform, including their filesystems, security features, and common forensic artifacts. It also explores techniques for bypassing screen locks, rooting devices, and recovering deleted data. Additionally, the book explores ...
Feb 01, 2025•12 min
This Book titled "Practical Linux System Administration" by Kenneth Hess. The text provides a comprehensive guide for Linux system administrators, covering topics such as installation, configuration, and management. The book explores various aspects of system administration, including user management, backups, filesystem housekeeping, storage management, network setup, hardware and software troubleshooting, application management, and career development. The book uses a conversational tone and i...
Feb 01, 2025•16 min
This Book "Practical Industrial Cybersecurity: ICS, Industry 4.0, and IIoT" provides a comprehensive guide to securing industrial control systems (ICS). The book covers a wide range of topics, including ICS architecture, secure network design, common cybersecurity threats, and incident response strategies. It also addresses essential concepts like access control, user authentication, and risk management. The author's aim is to empower professionals to protect critical infrastructure and networks...
Feb 01, 2025•20 min
This Book is a compilation of programming recipes and explanations from a book titled "Practical C Programming." The book provides practical solutions and guidance for modern C developers aiming to build applications. It covers a vast array of topics, including working with arrays, managing strings, exploring functions, preprocessing and compilation, pointers, file handling, concurrency, networking, databases, advanced data structures, graphs, graphics, and embedded software with the Internet of...
Jan 30, 2025•14 min
This Book titled "Practical Reverse Engineering." It provides a comprehensive guide to reverse engineering techniques for x86, x64, and ARM architectures. The text covers a variety of topics, including basic instruction sets, debugging techniques, and obfuscation methods. It focuses on practical applications and demonstrates how to analyze and deobfuscate real-world code samples. The book also explores tools like Metasm, Miasm, and VxStripper, which are essential for reverse engineering tasks. Y...
Jan 30, 2025•28 min
The Book "Practical Linux Security Cookbook," which provides a guide to configuring and implementing security measures on Linux systems. It covers topics such as password protection, server security, kernel optimization, filesystem security, user authentication, remote access, network security, and security tools. You can listen and download our episodes for free on more than 10 different platforms: https://linktr.ee/cyber_security_summary Get the Book now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Pra...
Jan 30, 2025•23 min
This Book, "Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things" provides a comprehensive guide to the security vulnerabilities of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It explores various attack methods, including network hacking, firmware analysis, RFID exploitation, Bluetooth Low Energy hacking, Wi-Fi attacks, LoRaWAN attacks, and mobile app security testing. The authors detail practical techniques for discovering, exploiting, and mitigating security risks in IoT ecosy...
Jan 27, 2025•29 min
The provided Book "PowerShell for Sysadmins: Workflow Automation Made Easy" by Adam Bertram. The excerpt is a guide to using PowerShell for automating tasks in a Windows environment. It covers a wide range of topics, including PowerShell basics, scripting, functions, modules, remote management, and testing using Pester. The excerpt also provides practical examples and step-by-step instructions on building a module that automates the creation and configuration of virtual machines, operating syste...
Jan 27, 2025•31 min
The provided Book is an excerpt from a book titled "PowerShell 7 for IT Professionals: A Guide to Using PowerShell 7 to Manage Windows Systems," focusing on PowerShell 7, the latest version of PowerShell. The book covers how to set up a PowerShell 7 environment, understand its compatibility with Windows PowerShell, manage Active Directory, network configurations, and storage systems. Additionally, it explains how to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) with CIM cmdlets and build reportin...
Jan 27, 2025•21 min
The Book provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft Power BI, a powerful business intelligence tool. It begins with a basic overview of Power BI's components, features, and benefits, emphasizing its ability to connect to a wide range of data sources and visualize data in various ways. The document then moves on to a detailed exploration of DAX, Power BI's formula language, covering its syntax, different types of functions, and best practices for using them. Finally, the guide offers practical t...
Jan 25, 2025•19 min
This Book, "PoC or GTFO, Volume 2," is a compilation of articles written by a variety of authors on the subject of software exploitation. The articles discuss various aspects of hacking, including reverse engineering, side channel attacks, firmware analysis, and the exploitation of vulnerabilities in various systems. The document delves into specific topics such as the reverse engineering of Globalstar satellite communications, exploiting kernel memory vulnerabilities in both Windows and Linux, ...
Jan 25, 2025•17 min
The Book titled "PoC or GTFO, Volume 3" which contains various articles discussing "Proof of Concept" exploits for a wide range of systems and devices. The book is a collection of writings from different authors who explore vulnerabilities, reverse engineering, and security aspects of different hardware and software systems. The articles range from detailed analyses of specific exploits like cracking Gumball for the Apple II, detecting MIPS16 emulation, and understanding Java Key Store vulnerabi...
Jan 25, 2025•43 min
The Book, "PoC or GTFO, Volume 1" is a collection of articles and essays from various authors on the topic of computer security and reverse engineering. The authors, who are known for their expertise in the field, share their experiences and insights, exploring everything from how to bypass security measures to creating sophisticated exploits. The articles delve into a range of topics, including hardware hacking, software reverse engineering, file format manipulation, and even the ethical implic...
Jan 24, 2025•21 min
The Book, Physical Red Team Operations: Physical Penetration Testing, is a guide for security professionals on how to plan and execute physical red team operations, or physical penetration testing. The book provides a 12-step methodology called REDTEAMOPSEC for carrying out physical red team operations, which are simulations designed to uncover vulnerabilities in an organization’s security posture. It is written by Jeremiah Talamantes, an expert in social engineering and red team operations. The...
Jan 24, 2025•30 min
The Book material provides a comprehensive guide to phishing attacks, exploring various types, tactics, communication channels, and legal aspects. It examines social engineering techniques, different phishing methods such as DNS-based and content injection phishing, and explores how attackers use various communication channels like email, SMS, and social media to reach victims. The text also discusses legal frameworks and anti-phishing strategies, including blacklist/whitelist approaches, machin...
Jan 24, 2025•19 min
This excerpt from the Book "PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid" by Michael W. Lucas provides an overview of the open-source encryption programs PGP and GnuPG, which are used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of email communications. The text covers topics such as basic cryptography concepts, key management practices, email client integration, and potential security vulnerabilities, providing readers with practical guidance on how to use these programs effec...
Jan 22, 2025•23 min
This excerpt from the Book, "Personal Digital Security: Protecting Yourself from Online Crime" provides advice on how to keep personal computers and mobile devices secure from malicious hackers. The author suggests a variety of measures to protect both online accounts and physical devices, including strong passwords, antivirus software, and regularly backing up important data. The text also covers ways to guard against phishing scams, credit card fraud, and various social engineering tactics. In...
Jan 22, 2025•41 min
This Book teaches readers how to perform a web penetration test. The course explains the stages of a penetration test, beginning with understanding the nature of such a test and the ethics involved, followed by information gathering and reconnaissance techniques. The text details various methods for scanning and identifying vulnerabilities, including active and passive reconnaissance, scanning for open ports and vulnerable services, checking encryption quality, and utilizing interception proxies...
Jan 22, 2025•53 min
This excerpt from the Book "Pentesting With Perl" describes how to use Perl programming for penetration testing. The book covers a wide range of topics including how to use Perl to gather open-source intelligence (OSINT), perform various types of attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), crack passwords, and analyze network traffic. It also provides practical examples of how to create penetration testing tools using Perl and discusses methods for reporting penetration test re...
Jan 22, 2025•26 min
This Book, Linux Forensics, aims to provide a comprehensive guide to digital forensics using Linux. It explores various techniques for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting digital evidence from Linux systems. The book covers topics such as live analysis, image creation, mounting images, filesystem analysis, and advanced techniques for identifying and analyzing malware. It also provides practical advice for building a forensics toolkit, conducting investigations, and presenting findings. You c...
Jan 21, 2025•51 min
The excerpt is a section from the book "Pentest Secrets," which details the author's experience with a double-blind penetration test. The author, Sagar Bansal, describes his team's process of gaining access to an organization's systems, starting with social engineering and working through various technical hurdles. The book aims to teach readers the realities of enterprise security by showcasing the author's unconventional methods, emphasizing the importance of teamwork, and exploring the challe...
Jan 21, 2025•28 min
Penetration Testing with the Bash Shell is a guide to using the Bash shell and Kali Linux command-line tools for penetration testing. The book covers fundamental Bash skills, customizing the shell environment, network reconnaissance techniques, and exploitation methods. It also explores reverse engineering using tools like Objdump and GDB, and details network exploitation and monitoring tools. The authors, Keith Makan and David Huttleston Jr., share their expertise in security assessment and pen...
Jan 21, 2025•38 min
This Book is a compilation of excerpts from Penetration Testing for Dummies by Robert Shimonski. The book provides a comprehensive guide to penetration testing, covering various aspects from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. It explains the role of penetration testers, different types of hackers, and various attack vectors. The book also details the use of numerous tools like Kali Linux, Nmap, and Wireshark, and guides readers through the process of conducting a penetration test, crea...
Jan 21, 2025•31 min
This Book provides an extensive overview of network concepts, devices, and protocols with a particular focus on CompTIA Network+ exam preparation. It covers fundamental network components like routers, switches, and firewalls, explores various network topologies and protocols, and delves into security considerations, including common network attacks, preventative measures, and best practices for network management. The document also examines troubleshooting techniques, hardware and software tool...
Jan 20, 2025•19 min
