Is your IT system truly secure? There's only one way to find out: learn to think like a hacker and test it yourself! You'll start by understanding how to find vulnerabilities through techniques like footprinting, scanning, enumeration, and fuzzing. Then you'll discover how to exploit them-and importantly, how to protect against exploits-whether you're dealing with brute-force attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, social engineering, or any of the other threats out there. With integrated QR codes that connect you to supplemental video tutorials and hands-on exercises, this comprehensive guide will have you hacking in no time.

Highlights include:

1) Footprinting

2) Scanning

3) Enumeration and fuzzing

4) Cryptography

5) Password cracking

6) Cross-site scripting (XSS)

7) SQL injection

8) Social engineering

9) Reverse shells

10) Malware

11) Metasploit

12) OWASP