A few weeks ago I bought Georgia Weidman’s book about penetration testing: “A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking“. Being overloaded by many projects, I finally finished reading it and it’s now time to write a quick review. Georgia is an awesome person. There are not many recognized women in the information security
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Book Review: Cuckoo Malware Analysis
I’m a Cuckoo user for a long time therefore it was a good opportunity to read the book “Cuckoo Malware Analysis” and write a quick review (The book is published by Packt Publishing). For the readers who don’t know what Cuckoo is, here is a brief introduction… Malwares are a
Review: Mobile Security: How to Secure, Privatize and Recover Your Devices
I received a copy of a new book published by Packt publishing about mobile security. As mobile devices are more and more targeted by attackers, it was a good idea to publish a book on this hot topic. Written by a group of people working for IBM, the book covers
Review: Instant OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection System
The guys from Packt Publishing asked me to review a new book from their “Instant” collection: “OSSEC Host-Based Intrusion Detection“. This collection proposes books with less than 100 pages about multiple topics. The goal is to go straight forward to the topic. OSSEC being one of my favorite application, I
Top-10 Blog Posts for 2011
That’s the Christmas break for most of us! Let’s spend some good times with friends and family. That’s also the period when people like to ask to their crystal ball or their favorite mascot what will happen in the coming months. This is not an exercise for me. I don’t
Review: BT4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
If you are working in the “information security” field, you must know the BackTrack distribution (otherwise you must be an alien coming from a far away planet!). If you search for the word “backtrack” on Amazon, you will find lot of references but only one book is fully dedicated to
Book Review: IT Inventory and Resource Management With OCS Inventory NG 1.02
During my holidays, I finally took the time to finish to read the book “IT Inventory and Resources Management with OCS Inventory NV 1.02” which covers the application with the same name. Even if the inventory of devices connected to a network is primarily a system administration task, it has
Book Review: Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring
A few weeks ago, I received a copy of Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring from Packt Publishing. Here is my review. The book has been written by Dinangkur Kundu and S.M. Ibrahim Lavlu, who have both strong open-source softwares knowledge. Their book covers Cacti, a well-known framework (running on top of