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Author: Abhinav Singh
ISBN : B008DVPAOY
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Posts about Download The Book Free Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook from with Mediafire Link Download LinkThis is a Cookbook which follows a practical task-based style. There are plenty of code and commands used for illustration which make your learning curve easy and quick. This book targets both professional penetration testers as well as new users of Metasploit who wish to gain expertise over the framework. The book requires basic knowledge of scanning, exploitation, and Ruby language.Books with free ebook downloads available Free Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
- File Size: 4899 KB
- Print Length: 268 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 22, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B008DVPAOY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Free Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook
Overview: Singh provides an introduction to the widely used Metasploit framework in the form of seventy plus recipes for various penetration testing tasks. In a previous blog, I reviewed Dave Kennedy's Metasploit book. Both texts are well written. The format is different, however. Singh's book is written in a cookbook style which makes it easy to refer to it when attempting specific tasks. Kennedy's book is written in a more traditional style with an introduction and then survey of various aspects of Metasploit.
The differences between these two books extends beyond format. Singh's book goes beyond a basic coverage of Metasploit and covers additional penetration testing tools such as various scanners and evasion tools. So which book should you buy if you had to pick just one? To me it mostly comes down to personal preference. If you are just learning Metasploit, either should be a great aid in this process. If you want a book you can refer back to later, the Singh book may be slightly more convenient.
The publisher may also be a consideration. The Kennedy book is published by No Starch Press, whereas Singh's book is published by Packt. If you like eBooks you may prefer books from Packt Publishing. Packt provides DRM-free books in both PDF and ePub formats. This can be extremely convenient if you like to read your books on multiple devices. Personally I find myself reading books on my tablet and also keeping a copy on my penetration testing platform as a reference.
At the very beginning of getting into pentesting most users come across Metasploit as an embedded tool in Back Track. And many times our first experience is this... cd /opt/framework3/msf/ .... Scratching our heads wondering what's next. Well after some Google searches we come up with the answer "ah, yes! I must enter msfconsole or was it ./msfconsole" and this most glorious low-tech ascii picture comes up, sometime a cow, sometimes the word Metasploit, but it's splendor lays in that blinking cursor preceded by " msf >" it's laying there waiting, wanting for a command to do it's master's bidding. Then reality hits you over the head like Hacksaw Jim Duggan with a 2x4 - I don't know what to do! This is where Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook by Abhinav Singh comes in handy.
The book does a really good job of providing a beginning foundation with escalating use of difficulty. It was not overly difficult to follow along but I think it's strong point will be in providing reference for different areas in the use of Metasploit.
I really think the book was a stand out in a few areas:
- The quick walk through of what could go wrong during setup and how to potentially fix the issue. The screen shots served as a good reference point of what to expect in that regard. From memory I cannot recall very many technical security books that addressed what could go wrong and the fix(es).
- The use of SSH to help save on memory resources. I think many like to use the Linux UI to get to the Metasploit framework and this is a great alternative to reach Metasploit and really exercise ones command line skillz. (yes, I actually used "z" instead of "s"... Gotta keep street cred Yo!)
- The inclusion of multiple OS's for targeting against.