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Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

I gave this book a 5 star rating because I felt it covered all of the basic concepts rather well, and it was easy to follow along. The crash course on using the console (Bash) system was very well paced and planned out. I administer various linux systems and found this book rather helpful for testing the different virtual machines, dedicated machines, and workstations around the home office. Hackers won’t just target businesses, they will target home users as well, and small home businesses are major targets now.

I liked the introduction to each tool that will be used, I didn’t find which version the author used for Kali Linux which isn’t a huge negative but it would have been nice to have a chapter on setting up the environment. I decided to download the official 64bit version and dual boot my main system to follow the examples in the book, I like to type out the code as well but the code download was very helpful through the publishers website.

Overall this book is well worth the cost, if you want to take your security serious this book is a great stepping stone. You will learn tons of useful information from this book, most interesting was the Man in the middle attacks and the network discovery tools. I’ve used a few of the tools in the past and found this to be an excellent refresher, and the portion on Regular Expressions was really good.

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