Table of Contents

Hacking Windows OS. Obtaining Windows Passwords. Imaging and Extraction. Bypassing Web Filters. Mucking with the Web. Finding It All on the Netv5. Research Time. Capturing Network Traffic. Research Time: Finding the Vulnerabilities. Metasploit. Other Attack Tools. Social Engineering with Web 2.0. Hack the Macs. Wireless Hacking. Index.

About the Author

Jesse Varsalone has been teaching for 18 years. He taught high school for eight years, five in the Baltimore City Public Schools. After teaching high school, Jesse started teaching computer classes at the Computer Career Institutes at Johns Hopkins University and Stevenson University. He currently teaches online as an adjunct professor at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. Jesse holds a number of certifications in the IT field. Matthew McFadden researches, develops, and instructs network intrusion investigations. Matthew has spent several years in the field of information technology specializing in information assurance and security, network intrusion, malware analysis, and forensics. Matthew has performed research projects, consulted, and presented, and has worked in network administration. He also holds industry IT certifications.

Reviews

"If there ever was a book that should not be judged by its title, Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to Protect against It, is that book. Even if one uses the definition in The New Hackers Dictionary of 'a collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area', that really does not describe this book. The truth is that hacking is none of the above. If anything, it is a process that is far from mysterious, but rather aether to describe. With that, the book does a good job of providing the reader with the information needed to run a large set of hacking tools. ... the book walks the reader through the process of how to use hacking tools and how to make sense of their output. ... a really good reference for someone experienced in the topic who wants to improve their expertise."— Ben Rothke, author of Computer Security: 20 Things Every Employee Should Know"A fascinating catalog of the techniques hackers use to get information from networks and computers … of great interest to the security research community."— Computing Reviews, June 2012