Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide

Excerpt from Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide by Rafay Baloch

The book covers a wide range of tools, including Backtrack Linux, Google reconnaissance, MetaGooFil, dig, Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, Fast Track Autopwn, Netcat, and Hacker Defender rootkit. Supplying a simple and clean explanation of how to effectively utilize these tools, it details a four-step methodology for conducting an effective penetration test or hack.

Summary

Requiring no prior hacking experience, Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing Guide supply a complete introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test, or an ethical hack, from beginning to end. You will learn how to properly utilize and interpret the results of modern-day hacking tools, which are required to complete a penetration test.

The book covers a wide range of tools, including Backtrack Linux, Google reconnaissance, MetaGooFil, dig, Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, Fast Track Autopwn, Netcat, and Hacker Defender rootkit. Supplying a simple and clean explanation of how to effectively utilize these tools, it details a four-step methodology for conducting an effective penetration test or hack.

Providing an accessible introduction to penetration testing and hacking, the book supplies you with a fundamental understanding of offensive security. After reading the book, you will be prepared to take on in-depth and advanced topics in hacking and penetration testing.

The book walks you through each of the steps and tools in a structured, orderly manner allowing you to understand how the output from each tool can be fully utilized in the subsequent phases of the penetration testing. This process will allow you to clearly see how the various tools and phases relate to each other.

This book is an ideal resource for those who want to learn about ethical hacking but don’t know where to start. It will help take your hacking skills to the next level. Its topics comply with international standards and with what is being taught in international certifications.

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About the Author
Rafay Baloch (http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net) is an Independent Security Researcher, Internet Marketer, Entrepreneur and a SEO consultant. He is the founder of RHA blog and multiple other blogs. RafayHackingArticles (RHA) is one of the leading security and technology blogs in Pakistan. The blog gets more than 20K visitors daily, 19K+ Daily RSS readers, around 10K Twitter followers and 6K Facebook Fans. It has been featured in lots of popular E-magazines such as Hackin9 worldwide.