Publisher's Synopsis
The hardest part of hacking is the analysis. Most students learn the skills part of security testing pretty quickly, and a few of them are natural hackers, automatically showing the right combination of resourcefulness, tenacity, and creativity. You need to practice security analysis to be good at it. And that is what this book is designed to do. This volume includes lessons in Hacking Malware, Attack Analysis, and Counter Forensics. It will teach you how to make yourself much safer online as well as prepare you with the techniques needed for professional cybersecurity analysis and hacking. Learn and reinforce essential security skills quickly with this straight-forward guide designed to speed learning and information retention. With clear explanations, stories, and interesting exercises from hacking to security analysis you will quickly grasp and use important security techniques. As a textbook, workbook, and study guide for both directed and self-learning, this is the ultimate textbook for cybersecurity awareness and skill-building designed for all high school and college students. Ideal for any classroom or home-schooling. It is based on the open source Hacker Highschool project and expanded to provide for a wide range of technology skill levels. The guide uses research from the Open Source Security Testing Methodology (OSSTMM) to assure this is the newest security research and concepts.
