Windows and Linux Penetration Testing from Scratch - Second Edition

Preface

Maybe you’ve just finished a boot camp on ethical hacking and you can’t get enough. Perhaps you’re an administrator who has realized that it’s time to understand how the bad guys work with these dark arts. It’s also possible that someone gave you this book for your birthday after misunderstanding when you said you have a keen interest in den nesting. Whoever you are (except for that last one), this book is for you. But why this book?

Let’s be honest: this subject has a tendency to be dry. Sometimes, it feels like an author is there to just tell us how it is, providing a sparse foundation of the concepts under discussion. I think the experience is more enjoyable if it feels more like an interactive learning session than a lecture. So, ...