RE: Newbie Hacker Tools

[skill2die4 () secguru com]

This discussion reminded me of a quote from "Michael Sinz" :

"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the
rest of your life."

Probably the same can be said for blindly using hacking/pentesting tools
against clients ! Be intelligent and do a lot of RTFM before using these
tools against anyone. :-) <<happy hacking>>


Nessus
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Introduction (article) - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1741
Scanning (article) - http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1753
Nessus Network Auditing (book) - check amazon !
Nessus Primer with the NessusWX Client -
http://www.sans.org/rr/whitepapers/tools/1464.php


Nmap
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Manpage - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage.html
NMAP: under the hood - http://www.secguru.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=68
introduction to nmap - http://members.dodo.net.au/~ps2man/Nmap/nmap.html


And .. a nmap-nessus combined cheatsheet, which would help you till the
time  you dont cram up all those cmd options ;-)

http://www.secguru.com/nessus-nmap-cheatsheet.html


HTH,

-=skillz=-


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