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The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
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The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing

by Patrick Engebretson
July 2011
Beginner
180 pages
5h 16m
English
Syngress
Content preview from The Basics of Hacking and Penetration Testing
Index
A
Access, maintaining
127
Back Orifice
144
Netbus
134–135
Netcat
128–133
Cryptcat
133–134
practicing
142–143
rootkits
135–141
detecting and defending against
141–142
Hacker Defender
137–141
SubSeven (Sub7)
144
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
56
Active reconnaissance
18, 25
Advanced security concepts
153
AFP
67
“Allintitle:” directive
23
APT (Advanced Package Tool)
4
Attack vectors
66, 108, 121
Authorization
3
B
Back Orifice
144
Backtrack
5, 6, 26–27, 36, 69, 83–84
working with
6–9
Backtrack Linux
3–6, 154
Base64
116
Bdcli100.exe
137
Ben Owned
38, 80, 86, 118, 119
Bind and reverse payloads, difference between
80
Bing
26
Black Hat conference
154
Brute forcing letter combinations
87
Burp Proxy
125
Burp Suite
125
C
CANVAS
71
Carl-Fredrik
134
Chat rooms
152
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ISBN: 9781597496551