Owning A Continent, Penetrating Testing with Google

Published 11.15.2005 by jm | E-mail this post

I would like to strongly recommend two very good books. The first is "Google Hacking for Penetration Testing." This not only outlines how Google's web crawler can be utilized to find known security flaws in your network, but also delves into some rather well thought up techniques than can help you further than Google's microcosm of computing.

Next, is a book called "Owning A Continent" which is almost a Black Hat book, which every network security manager should read thoroughly. If an attacker is planning on destroying global commerce, you will need to have forethought to keep your organization, and ideally other organizations, safe.

I choose both of these books to highlight, because they will be timeless; by this I imply that even when Google dies, and even when all the exploits listed in Owning a Continent are patched, the theories will still hold strong so long as computers exist. For instnace, web crawling will always sniff out links, and denial of service attacks will always be the key distructive force in the computer world.

In past posts, I have discussed several issues outlined in these two books. For instance, Google Hacks, Search Engines as Annonymous Proxies and Hacking Web Based Applications and Scripts

If the human body was never exposed to ailments, it would be impressivly vulnerable to the slightest cold. If our country was never exposed to hacking, it would be oppressivly vulnerable to cyber terrorism. With out the creation of a malicious hacking, Afganistan could have destroyed America's economy with a ping flood. This is why I encourange maclicious hacking, as an ethical practice. Without strengthening our defenses, we are weak. This site is focused on security through knowledge. I detest the fact that so many companies are being exploited because malicious hackers know their security holes before they do. For that reason, I hope to educate where the exploits lay. This isn't a 100% information base, as I only publish things I have been able to implement on myself. No credit is needed anywhere . However if you are a publisher, I would appriciate credit. I am an advocate of open source, so copy and paste and call it your own if you like. If my work is good enough for you to plagerize then that is my biggest compliment . If my work is good enough, I will be approached and asked to write more ... this is natural selection of the digital age .

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Two very recommended books:

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