The provided Book is the table of contents and introductory material for a book titled Wireshark Network Security. The book aims to teach network administrators and security analysts how to use Wireshark to detect and analyze various network security threats. It covers topics such as analyzing clear-text traffic, sniffing attacks, network reconnaissance, password cracking attempts, and malware traffic inspection. The book also explores using Wireshark's command-line tools and complementary appli...
Apr 12, 2025•22 min
This Book excerpt detailing the use of Wireshark for network forensics. It covers Wireshark installation and basic usage, including packet capture and analysis techniques. The text also explores advanced topics such as capturing secured application traffic (HTTPS, QUIC, Secure DNS), wireless traffic (802.11), and multimedia streams. Furthermore, it addresses network attack classification, malware analysis, and the creation of custom Wireshark dissectors. The authors are experienced network engin...
Apr 11, 2025•17 min
The source Book "Windows Server 2022 & PowerShell All-in-One For Dummies" by Sara Perrott. It provides a comprehensive guide for system administrators, covering a wide range of topics including installing and configuring Windows Server 2022, managing Active Directory, troubleshooting network issues, working with PowerShell, and implementing virtualization with Hyper-V. The book is organized into eight minibooks, each focusing on a specific aspect of Windows Server 2022 or PowerShell, making ...
Apr 11, 2025•11 min
This Book is a technical manual focused on wireless network security. It covers various wireless technologies, including WLAN, infrared, and near-field communication (NFC), exploring their respective security vulnerabilities and countermeasures. The text details technical specifications, architectures, and protocols, also offering checklists and directives for implementing robust security practices in both organizational and personal settings. A significant portion is dedicated to mobile phone s...
Apr 10, 2025•21 min
This Book, "Windows Ransomware Detection and Protection," provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and mitigating ransomware threats. Experts Matt Davidsson and Nitish Anand detail various ransomware attack vectors, techniques, and countermeasures, focusing on Microsoft technologies. The book covers forensics, threat monitoring, building a secure foundation (including zero-trust principles), and securing various Microsoft platforms (Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365). Finally, it explores dat...
Apr 10, 2025•36 min
"Windows Malware Analysis Essentials" is a technical Book authored by Victor Marak that provides a comprehensive guide to malware analysis on the Windows platform. The book covers fundamental concepts such as binary and hexadecimal number systems, x86 assembly programming, and Windows internals. It details practical malware analysis techniques, including static and dynamic analysis, using tools like IDA Pro and OllyDbg. Furthermore, the book explores advanced topics such as kernel-mode analysis,...
Apr 09, 2025•23 min
This Book excerpts Windows kernel programming, covering Windows internals and kernel development. It explains process and thread structures, including memory management and handle tables. The book details kernel API usage, such as memory allocation and synchronization primitives. Furthermore, it discusses kernel debugging techniques using WinDbg and LKD, along with driver development, including mini-filters and file system filtering. Finally, it covers advanced topics like driver signing, verifi...
Apr 09, 2025•32 min
This Book is an excerpt from the seventh edition of "Windows Internals, Part 2," a technical book detailing the inner workings of the Windows operating system. It covers a wide array of low-level system mechanisms, including event tracing, dynamic tracing, error reporting, caching, file systems, and processor architecture. Significant attention is given to kernel-mode components and their interactions, such as interrupt handling, synchronization primitives, and process management. The authors ex...
Apr 08, 2025•17 min
This Book is an excerpt from a penetration testing manual, focusing on techniques for compromising Windows and Linux systems. The book details various methods of information gathering, including OSINT and network sniffing, and explains how to exploit network vulnerabilities like ARP poisoning and man-in-the-middle attacks. It covers password cracking techniques, using tools like John the Ripper and Hashcat, and describes how to maintain persistent access to compromised systems using methods such...
Apr 08, 2025•31 min
The Book is an excerpt on securing Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 systems. The Book discusses various aspects of network security, including general network settings, remote access, Internet connection security, network diagnostics, and network tools and utilities. It explores key concepts like the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) and emphasizes the importance of a secure network environment for both individual users and organizations. The book provides detailed inform...
Apr 07, 2025•25 min
Maor Tal's "Web Application Advanced Hacking" is a hands-on guide to advanced web application hacking techniques for security researchers and bug bounty hunters. The book covers a range of topics, including deserialization attacks, type juggling, NoSQL injection, API hacking (GraphQL), misconfigured cloud storage, server-side request forgery, application logic flaws, and attacks against JSON Web Tokens, SAML, and OAuth 2.0 flows. Each chapter provides both theoretical explanations and practical ...
Apr 07, 2025•21 min
This Book provides excerpts from Kyle Simpson's Book, "You Don't Know JS: this & Object Prototypes," which explores JavaScript's often-misunderstood this keyword and object prototypes. The Book explains how this binding works, the nature of JavaScript objects, and how prototypes create links between objects rather than copies. It also examines design patterns like mixins and behavior delegation as alternatives to the more traditional class/inheritance model. The authors emphasize a deep unde...
Apr 06, 2025•14 min
The provided Book is a compilation of excerpts from "The Shellcoder’s Handbook, Second Edition," a book focusing on software exploitation. It details various methods of exploiting software vulnerabilities, primarily buffer overflows and format string bugs, across different operating systems (Linux, Solaris, OS X, Windows) and architectures. The book explains the underlying mechanisms of these exploits, including shellcode techniques and heap manipulation. It also covers advanced topics like bypa...
Apr 06, 2025•17 min
"Web Hacking 101" is a guide to ethical hacking, focusing on real-world examples of vulnerability reports that yielded bug bounties. The book covers various web vulnerabilities, including HTML injection, HTTP parameter pollution, CRLF injection, cross-site scripting, SQL injection, open redirects, subdomain takeovers, application logic flaws, server-side template injection, server-side request forgery, and memory vulnerabilities. Each vulnerability type is explained with practical examples and a...
Apr 06, 2025•33 min
This Book is a table of contents and excerpts from the "Zed Attack Proxy Cookbook," a guide to using the OWASP ZAP tool for web application security testing. The book covers various web application vulnerabilities, including injection flaws, broken authentication, and session management weaknesses. It provides practical, step-by-step instructions and examples using tools like OWASP Juice Shop and PortSwigger Academy labs to demonstrate how to identify and exploit these vulnerabilities. The autho...
Apr 04, 2025•21 min
Zero Trust Networks, by Evan Gilman and Doug Barth, explores building secure systems in untrusted networks. The book critiques the limitations of perimeter-based security, arguing that assuming internal networks are inherently safe is flawed. It advocates for a zero trust model, where no implicit trust is granted, and every access request is verified. The authors detail implementing this model, covering topics such as authentication, authorization, encryption, and policy enforcement. Finally, th...
Apr 04, 2025•26 min
Kyle Simpson's You Don't Know JS: Types & Grammar is a guide to mastering JavaScript's intricacies. The book thoroughly explains JavaScript's seven built-in types, addressing common misunderstandings around type coercion. It explores nuances of JavaScript syntax, including statements, expressions, and operators, and examines the behavior of native objects like String and Array. The text also discusses the importance of understanding both explicit and implicit type coercion and how to use the...
Apr 03, 2025•43 min
Kyle Simpson's "You Don't Know JS" Book series offers an in-depth exploration of JavaScript, challenging the common practice of only learning a superficial subset. The first book, "Up & Going," provides a foundational understanding of programming concepts and JavaScript's core mechanisms, preparing readers for the more advanced titles. Subsequent books cover scope and closures, this and object prototypes, types and grammar, asynchronous programming and performance, and ES6 and beyond. The se...
Apr 03, 2025•40 min
Dmitry Vostokov's Book, Foundations of Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing, teaches readers to analyze binary code, understand stack memory usage, and reconstruct C/C++ code using Intel x64. The provided text is a detailed excerpt from Chapter 1-8, focusing on fundamental concepts like memory, registers, and simple arithmetic operations. It demonstrates these concepts through a step-by-step "Arithmetic" project, translating pseudo-code and C/C++ into assembly language. The text also ex...
Apr 01, 2025•21 min
Dmitry Vostokov's Book, Foundations of ARM64 Linux Debugging, Disassembling, and Reversing, provides a practical guide to understanding ARM64 assembly language and its relationship to C/C++ code. The book uses numerous examples and diagrams to illustrate concepts like memory management, registers, pointers, and stack operations within the ARM64 architecture. It emphasizes hands-on exercises using the GDB debugger to analyze code, understand memory usage, and reconstruct original source code. The...
Apr 01, 2025•12 min
This Book explores the threats of hardware and software Trojans, particularly in critical infrastructure like telecommunications and nuclear power plants. It details the historical use of such Trojans by criminal organizations and nation-states, outlining various attack methods and the subsequent development of cyberweapons. The text also examines countermeasures, including software and hardware solutions, and discusses reverse engineering techniques used to analyze and protect against these thr...
Mar 31, 2025•21 min
"Unleashing the Art of Digital Forensics" is a Book covering various aspects of digital forensics, including techniques, challenges, and legal considerations. It explores specific areas like steganography, deepfakes, and the dark web. The book also examines relevant laws and regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, alongside information security standards like ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. Further chapters address challenges in digital forensics, cybercrimes against women in India, and the role of te...
Mar 31, 2025•23 min
This Book is an excerpt from the UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, covering various aspects of system administration. Sections detail software management, including scripting with Perl and Python, storage management with RAID and LVM, process control, and user account management. Further sections explore networking, including TCP/IP configuration, routing protocols, and DNS management, and email system administration, with configurations for sendmail, Exim, and Postfix. Finally, the...
Mar 30, 2025•28 min
This Book chapter provides a "Quick Start" guide to the UNIX operating system, covering fundamental commands for file management, text editing (vi, vim, emacs), and shell scripting (Bourne and C shells). It also explores networking concepts, system programming using the UNIX API and system calls, and process management. Significant portions detail using Python within a UNIX environment, including installing it on PC-BSD and Solaris. Finally, it introduces Git and GitHub for source code managemen...
Mar 30, 2025•18 min
This Book is an excerpt from a book titled "Understanding Network Hacks Attack and Defense with Python 3," which teaches network security concepts and hacking techniques using Python. The book covers various network protocols (TCP/IP, ARP, ICMP, DNS, HTTP, Bluetooth), explaining how attacks work and providing Python code examples for both offensive and defensive purposes. It emphasizes the importance of understanding attacker techniques for effective network security. Specific attacks detailed i...
Mar 29, 2025•17 min
This Book is from a cybersecurity risk management book, offering a practical, three-part framework for building a sustainable program. The book emphasizes understanding risk by defining critical assets and their potential impact, managing risk through framework adoption and structured processes, and measuring risk using informative metrics. It provides examples and checklists for implementing these steps, particularly focusing on third-party risk management. The authors are cybersecurity experts...
Mar 29, 2025•26 min
This Book excerpt details Ubuntu Linux, focusing on installation, system administration, and software management. It covers using both the graphical user interface and command-line interface, exploring various desktop environments and their configurations. The text also extensively explains software management using apt, and provides instructions for managing users, groups, and permissions. Finally, the excerpt delves into networking, web server configuration (Apache and Nginx), database managem...
Mar 28, 2025•53 min
This Book is an excerpt from the fourth edition of Troubleshooting & Maintaining Your PC All-in-One For Dummies. The book offers comprehensive guidance on resolving various PC problems. It's divided into sections covering common issues, ranging from startup problems and disk errors to network connectivity and software malfunctions. Each section provides troubleshooting steps and explains relevant Windows tools and utilities, illustrated with figures. The book emphasizes practical solutions a...
Mar 28, 2025•41 min
This Book is an excerpt from Tribe of Hackers: Security Leaders, a book offering cybersecurity leadership strategies. The excerpt features interviews with numerous cybersecurity professionals, who share their experiences, decision-making processes, and advice on leading teams. The contributors discuss challenges like collaborating with other departments, managing difficult decisions, and building effective teams. Many also offer book recommendations for aspiring cybersecurity leaders, covering t...
Mar 27, 2025•37 min
This Book comprises excerpts from Tribe of Hackers Red Team, a book by Marcus J. Carey and Jennifer Jin. The excerpts feature interviews with numerous cybersecurity professionals, primarily red teamers. These experts discuss their experiences, providing insights into red teaming methodologies, essential skills (both technical and soft), ethical considerations, and advice for aspiring red teamers. Significant attention is given to the importance of collaboration between red and blue teams, effect...
Mar 27, 2025•20 min
