"The Hacker Playbook 2" is a guide to penetration testing, expanding upon the first book with updated attacks and techniques. The book covers various attack vectors, including network scanning, web application exploitation (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF), and social engineering. It details the use of both open-source and commercial penetration testing tools, like Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Cobalt Strike, providing practical examples and lab exercises. The author, with extensive experience in penetra...
Mar 09, 2025•16 min
This Book is an excerpt from "The Complete Book of Locks and Locksmithing," a comprehensive guide to locks and locksmithing. It covers the history of locks, various lock mechanisms (including pin tumbler, lever tumbler, and disc tumbler locks), lock picking and impressioning techniques, master key systems, automotive lock servicing, safes and security, and modern smart locks. The excerpt also includes information on tools, installation techniques, troubleshooting, and business aspects of locksmi...
Mar 09, 2025•15 min
This guidebook from Holistics, a data analytics company, offers a practical framework for building modern analytics systems. It covers setting up an analytics stack, emphasizing the ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) approach over ETL. The book details data centralization, modeling using Kimball's methodology and modern adaptations, and data delivery through business intelligence tools. It contrasts various BI tool approaches and discusses the evolution of data analytics workflows, advocating for a ...
Mar 08, 2025•41 min
This Book is the preface and table of contents from a book titled Testing and Securing Android Studio Applications. The book guides Android developers on debugging and securing their apps using Android Studio. It covers fundamental software security concepts, Android-specific security features, debugging tools (DDMS), vulnerability mitigation techniques, data privacy preservation, securing communications (HTTPS), authentication methods, and various testing methodologies. The authors provide prac...
Mar 08, 2025•21 min
The provided Book is a table of contents and excerpts from Behrouz Forouzan's "TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 4th Edition," covering various networking concepts. It details the TCP/IP protocol suite's architecture, exploring layers from the physical layer to the application layer. Specific protocols such as IP, TCP, UDP, and several routing protocols are examined. Additionally, security aspects, including cryptography and SSL/TLS, are discussed, along with application-layer protocols like SMTP, HTTP, FT...
Mar 07, 2025•35 min
Glenn Fleishman's Take Control of Wi-Fi Networking and Security is a comprehensive guide to setting up and securing Wi-Fi networks. The book covers fundamental concepts like Wi-Fi standards and spectrum, offers advice on selecting and configuring network hardware (gateways and mesh networks), and details connection procedures for various operating systems. It also provides practical guidance on network planning, troubleshooting, and implementing security measures, including encryption and VPN us...
Mar 07, 2025•33 min
This Book is a table of contents and excerpts from a book teaching iOS app development using SwiftUI. It covers fundamental Swift programming concepts, including data types, operators, control flow, and functions. The book then progressively introduces SwiftUI, explaining views, layouts, data binding, and more advanced topics like animations, gestures, and integrating with UIKit and SiriKit. Chapters also demonstrate building widgets and handling documents, providing practical tutorials and exam...
Mar 06, 2025•31 min
The provided Book is an excerpt from a cryptography textbook, specifically focusing on the theory and practice of various cryptographic systems. It covers fundamental concepts like secret-key and public-key cryptography, explains advanced topics such as post-quantum cryptography and hybrid cryptography, and details specific cryptosystems including DES and AES. Furthermore, it analyzes cryptanalytic techniques like linear and differential cryptanalysis, and discusses cryptographic hash functions,...
Mar 06, 2025•28 min
This Book is an excerpt from a cryptography and network security textbook. It covers various security mechanisms, including encryption algorithms (symmetric and asymmetric), hashing functions, and digital signatures. The book also explains network security tools and applications like firewalls, Kerberos, and IPsec. Further, it discusses system security issues such as intrusion detection and virus protection. Finally, the excerpt highlights key management and the mathematical foundations of crypt...
Mar 05, 2025•18 min
This Book is excerpt from William Stallings' book, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, seventh edition. The excerpt covers a broad range of cryptographic concepts and techniques, including number theory fundamentals, classical and modern encryption algorithms (DES, AES, and others), public-key cryptosystems (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, Elliptic Curve Cryptography), cryptographic hash functions (SHA, SHA-3), message authentication codes (MACs), digital signatures, key distributio...
Mar 05, 2025•14 min
This Book provides a comprehensive guide to SQL injection, covering both offensive and defensive strategies. Part one introduces SQL, database systems, and the theoretical underpinnings of SQL injection attacks. Part two offers practical, hands-on exercises using vulnerable web applications, mobile apps, and IoT devices to demonstrate various attack techniques. Part three details defensive measures, including code-level and platform-level defenses, to mitigate SQL injection vulnerabilities. The ...
Mar 04, 2025•33 min
This Book is on simplifying React application testing. It covers using the React Testing Library for unit and integration tests, emphasizing user-centric testing over implementation details. The book also explores end-to-end testing with Cypress, including techniques like page objects and Gherkin-style tests. Additionally, it addresses refactoring legacy tests and improving testing workflows with tools like ESLint plugins and Wallaby.js. Finally, it provides instructions for downloading the acco...
Mar 04, 2025•29 min
This Book is a lab guide for a self-paced Silver Peak Advanced SDWAN course. It provides step-by-step instructions for configuring various networking elements within the Silver Peak Orchestrator, such as EdgeHA, loopbacks, internet breakout, BGP, OSPF, route maps, regional routing, and zone-based firewalls. The guide utilizes a ReadyTech hosted training environment, where students can access virtual machines and network devices to practice the configuration tasks. You can listen and download our...
Mar 03, 2025•8 min
This Book is excerpt from Jon Westfall's 2021 Book, "Set Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Server." The book guides readers through setting up and administering a virtual private server (VPS), covering topics such as choosing a VPS provider, basic Linux administration (command line and GUI), security measures, backup strategies, and installing various open-source applications (like WordPress, Moodle, and osTicket). It emphasizes practical skills, offering step-by-step instructions and troublesh...
Mar 03, 2025•33 min
This Book is a comprehensive guide to serverless security, focusing on the implementation of secure practices across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud platforms. It covers various aspects, including securing application code, restricting permissions, managing accounts and secrets, implementing authentication and authorization, protecting sensitive data, and establishing robust monitoring, auditing, and alerting systems. The text provides practical examples and exercises to illustrate key concepts, al...
Mar 01, 2025•48 min
This Book is a detailed guide to modern cryptography, covering both theoretical concepts and practical implementations. The book explores various cryptographic primitives, including stream ciphers, hash functions, and authenticated encryption, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. It also discusses key management, including key generation and protection methods, and examines different types of attacks, such as side-channel attacks and chosen-plaintext/ciphertext attacks. Finally, it explains...
Mar 01, 2025•21 min
This excerpt from Charles P. Pfleeger's "Security in Computing" (5th edition) is a textbook chapter on computer security. It examines various threats to computer systems, including malicious attacks (like denial-of-service and malware), and unintentional errors. The text also explores security measures, such as authentication methods, encryption techniques, access control, and risk analysis. Furthermore, it discusses legal and ethical considerations surrounding computer security and privacy, enc...
Feb 28, 2025•29 min
Security Warrior is a technical manual focusing on network security, reverse engineering, and attack techniques. It covers various operating systems (Windows, Linux) and their vulnerabilities, exploring topics like buffer overflows, social engineering, and TCP/IP analysis. The book also details methods for concealing attack traces and employing anti-forensics techniques. It provides practical examples and tools for both offensive and defensive security professionals, along with numerous referenc...
Feb 28, 2025•16 min
This Book is an excerpt from a Book about security testing with Kali NetHunter, a mobile penetration testing platform for Android. The excerpt covers installing and setting up a testing lab using virtual machines, exploring NetHunter's desktop apps and menu items, and performing various security tests such as HID attacks, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, and Wi-Fi network attacks using tools like cSploit, Shodan, DriveDroid, and the Mana Wireless Toolkit. The author emphasizes the importance of ethica...
Feb 27, 2025•27 min
Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems" explores various facets of security, from cryptographic vulnerabilities and attacks to access control mechanisms and the challenges of building secure systems. The text examines real-world examples of security failures in diverse areas including healthcare, banking, and transportation, highlighting the importance of robust security design and implementation, and the limitations of purely technical solution...
Feb 27, 2025•15 min
Luigi Aversa's Security for Containers and Kubernetes is a comprehensive guide to securing containerized environments. The book covers container stack security, image and registry security, and Kubernetes hardening. Specific topics explored include reducing attack surfaces, managing vulnerabilities, implementing role-based access control, and using various security tools. The text also details secure network communication and monitoring techniques. Finally, it addresses security concerns in popu...
Feb 26, 2025•16 min
This Book excerpt details Linux security strategies, covering threats, vulnerabilities, and hardening techniques. It explains Linux's architecture, including the kernel and its role in security. The text discusses access controls, file system security, and network security measures like firewalls and encryption. Furthermore, it addresses user and group management, secure remote access, and maintaining a secure system baseline. Finally, it provides information on update management and tools for d...
Feb 26, 2025•20 min
This Book is a technical Book excerpt focusing on network security, specifically detailing secure proxies and their role in modern threat detection and mitigation. It explores various security technologies, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and malware detection techniques, highlighting their limitations and how secure proxies overcome them. The text describes proxy architecture, policy engines, and deployment strategies, emphasizing the importance of application classification a...
Feb 25, 2025•21 min
This Book is a table of contents and excerpts from Security Automation with Ansible 2, a book detailing how to automate security tasks using Ansible. The book covers Ansible fundamentals, integrating Ansible with tools like Ansible Tower and Jenkins, and automating security tasks such as web application security testing with OWASP ZAP, vulnerability scanning with Nessus, and implementing security hardening based on various benchmarks and frameworks. It also explores automating log monitoring and...
Feb 25, 2025•41 min
"Securing VoIP Networks" is a technical Book examining the security challenges of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems. The book details various threats and attacks against VoIP, including eavesdropping, denial-of-service attacks, and fraud. It then analyzes the vulnerabilities in VoIP protocols and architectures that enable these attacks. Finally, the text proposes countermeasures and security mechanisms, such as encryption and authentication protocols, to protect VoIP networks. The book...
Feb 24, 2025•24 min
Secure Programming with Static Analysis is a Book detailing how to write secure software using static analysis tools. It focuses on common coding errors in C and Java that lead to security vulnerabilities, providing code examples and solutions. The book emphasizes preventing vulnerabilities, rather than merely addressing them after they occur, advocating for proactive techniques such as input validation and secure coding practices. Specific security issues like buffer overflows, SQL injection, a...
Feb 24, 2025•23 min
This Book excerpt details the creation of numerous PHP applications, focusing on secure coding practices and a reusable application framework. The author, Mohammed J. Kabir, presents 50 practical applications, including intranet tools (calendar, contact manager, document publisher), an e-mail survey system, and an e-campaign system. Best practices for PHP development are emphasized, covering topics such as variable naming, configuration management, database interactions, and security. The text i...
Feb 23, 2025•15 min
This Book is an excerpt from Dennis Sawyers' Book, "Automated Machine Learning with Microsoft Azure," which provides a comprehensive guide to using automated machine learning (AutoML) on Microsoft's Azure platform. The book covers AutoML concepts, implementation using Azure Machine Learning Studio and Python, building various AutoML models (regression, classification, and forecasting), and deploying these models for real-time and batch scoring solutions. It also explores integrating AutoML with ...
Feb 23, 2025•37 min
This Book is a table of contents and excerpts from a Book teaching Rust web programming. It covers fundamental Rust concepts like memory management and ownership, then progresses to building web applications using Actix Web, Rocket, and Warp frameworks. The book emphasizes building scalable and testable applications, including unit testing with Cargo and functional testing with Postman and Newman. Finally, it details deployment to AWS EC2 using Docker and NGINX, and explores data persistence wit...
Feb 22, 2025•35 min
Modern Vulnerability Management: Predictive Cybersecurity is a Book by Roytman and Bellis that offers a data-driven approach to vulnerability management. It emphasizes risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM), using machine learning and data science to prioritize and predict vulnerabilities most likely to be exploited. The book covers various data sources, mathematical models (including logistic regression and neural networks), and metrics for measuring the effectiveness of remediation strateg...
Feb 22, 2025•19 min
