Hacking Made Simple: Full Beginners Guide To Master Hacking

What is Penetration Testing? -- Reconnaissance -- Scanning -- Exploitation -- Social Engineering -- Web-Based Exploitation -- Post Exploitation and Maintaining Access with Backdoors, Rootkits, and Meterpreter -- Wrapping Up the Penetration Test.;"The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing serves as an introduction to the steps required to complete a penetration test or perform an ethical hack. You learn how to properly utilize and interpret the results of modern day hacking tools; which are required to complete a penetration test. Tool coverage will include, Backtrack Linux, Google, Whois, Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, Netcat, Netbus, and more. A simple and clean explanation of how to utilize these tools will allow you to gain a solid understanding of each of the four phases and prepare them to take on more in-depth texts and topics. This book includes the use of a single example (pen test target) all the way through the book which allows you to clearly see how the tools and phases relate."--Supplied by vendor.