Read Rtfm Red Team Field Manual 8601416637778 Computer Science Books

Product details Paperback 96 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1.0 edition (February 11, 2014) Language English ISBN-10 1494295504

Rtfm Red Team Field Manual 8601416637778 Computer Science Books Reviews

• These are all fun and stuff, but there needs to be a few actual reviews.
  
  This book is essentially a decade's worth of notes from an experienced network security engineer or pen tester. It looks like someone published an evernote notebook. Formatting is inconsistent and at times confusing. There is a fair amount of duplication. Placeholders are inconsistent. There is no descriptive text or explanatory notes. It is a list of commands, and nothing more.
  
  If you are an experienced command line user, it is pretty awesome.
  
  That said, with around 2000 commands in the book, there in exactly one page of index. It is impossible to find anything. If it is windows, that's great, narrows things down to about 30 pages that you have to flip through to find what you want. Even though I often know exactly what I am looking for, I still end up flipping through nearly every page in the book to find it. That is frustrating.
  
  It's true that everything here can be found elsewhere online, but that's a lot like saying that a thesaurus is just a list of words that you can find online. The proper formatting of actually useful DOS net commands, for instance, is a great example of why the book is more useful than a Google search.
  
  I'd say this is pretty much a must-own book for anyone that has to work with computers. If you are in charge of security or testing, even better. I wish it was better indexed, but can't have everything. Certainly worth the money.
• This pamphlet (not really a book at 83 pages) is a good reference for those who don't use these tools on a regular basis. Covers (VERY briefly) Linux/Unix tools, Windows tools, and exploits used against web servers, databases, and wireless networks. This read will not make you a hacker by any stretch of the imagination. Simply a quick reference for tools used by power users, system admins and pen testers.
  
  The one big gripe I have with it is the print. It's hard enough to read in full daylight, let alone sitting in a dimly lit room with nothing but the glow of your LED monitor for light.
• This is a reference book that already presumes you know what you're doing with penetration testing and tools related to that. It's not going to teach you what to do or how to use various tools, but what it will do is be a handy, organized place to lookup a command that you may have forgotten how to use. For that 5 stars all the way. If there's any criticism I guess the type could be a bit larger. Maybe all the info in it is available online in other places. But having it all in one place is very handy. This is a compact, well organized reference that every pen tester should own.
• Very slight book, much more comprehensive references exist - this is all very available information. Still, a small subset could have proved useful - except that the binding make the book impossible to lie flat, and even if you can manage to read the headings, the text will elude you. Tiny, 4-5 pt gray font - make this book pretty useless. Will be returning since I already have books with this information...and I can actually read the type without a magnifying glass.
• Great reference, though it's already showing age (some commands won't work, even for the latest operating systems). But the gist of the commands is correct and the thought processes behind it them are clear and easy to understand while pen testing, so a quick Google is a good remedy for some of the more obscure ones. Maybe needs a new updated version soon? Otherwise fantastic.
• Sure, it's a Reference Booklet, it's WAY FAR from even trying to be a manual...
  
  83 pages as many others have said, with a huge amount of blank space. Sure you can get some commands you'd get by opening a second window and typing help...
  
  The booklet saves around 4min if you're fast enough or even less if you google search.
  The print should cost around 2 dollars with the information it has...
  
  GOOD
  It's small, pretty portable.
  It has a note section which is pretty useful and cute
  
  BAD
  If it doesn't pass out as a communist manual then you're on the bright side and you probably don't need it just google search.
  Wanna make your own duck scripts? TOO BAD , this ain't gonna help
• This is a skinny little book but it's packed with all kinds of useful information. I feel pretty comfortable in both a windows command prompt and a linux terminal and many of these items in this book are completely new to me. Great resource.
• This product has all those little things that elude human memory in one place. If you're a penetration tester or network administrator, this is a great "reference" to keep in your kit bag. It will help you avoid searching the Internet for that one article you read one time 10 years ago by showing you the relevant options for the command line command you're trying to use on the page in front of you. Also has a ton of network references (like the CIDR blocking to bits to subnet masks stuff). If you can do most of it in your head, but need the occasional memory boost, this book is a GREAT companion.