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The Art of exploitation
This marvelous piece of information introduces the hacker to the spirit and theory of hacking as well as the science behind it in a step by step method of learning which proves to be very effective. It begins at the basic level and jumps to the core hacking techniques and tricks and you can then start to think like a hacker. Essential and elemental techniques that hackers and security professionals use are here well described and discussed which helps the user to gain a real insight of the hacking world. The course also covers network traffic sniffing and manipulation as well as a cryptography section.