Bruce Potter, Chris Hurley, Johnny Long, Tom Owad, Russ Rogers

OS X for Hackers at Heart (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The sexy, elegant design of the Apple PowerBook combined with the Unix-like OS X operating system based on FreeBSD, have once again made OS X the Apple of every hacker's eye. In this unique and engaging book covering the brand new OS X 10.4 Tiger, the world's foremost "true hackers¿ unleash the power of OS X for everything form cutting edge research and development to just plain old fun.

OS X 10.4 Tiger is a major upgrade for Mac OS X for running Apple's Macintosh computers and laptops. This book is not a reference to every feature and menu item for OS X. Rather, it teaches hackers of all types from software developers to security professionals to hobbyists, how to use the most powerful (and often obscure) features of OS X for wireless networking, WarDriving, software development, penetration testing, scripting administrative tasks, and much more.

* Analyst reports indicate that OS X sales will double in 2005. OS X Tiger is currently the #1 selling software product on Amazon and the 12-inch PowerBook is the #1 selling laptop

* Only book on the market directly appealing to groundswell of hackers migrating to OS X

* Each chapter written by hacker most commonly associated with that topic, such as Chris Hurley (Roamer) organizer of the World Wide War Drive

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780080489483
• Artikelnr.: 38119434

Autorenporträt

Chris Hurley is a Senior Penetration Tester in the Washington, DC area. He has more than 10 years of experience performing penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and general INFOSEC grunt work. He is the founder of the WorldWide WarDrive, a four-year project to assess the security posture of wireless networks deployed throughout the world. Chris was also the original organizer of the DEF CON WarDriving contest. He is the lead author of WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 19318360305). He has contributed to several other Syngress publications, including Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit (ISBN: 1-5974490210), Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity (ISBN: 1597490067), InfoSec Career Hacking (ISBN: 1597490113), and OS X for Hackers at Heart (ISBN: 1597490407). He has a BS from Angelo State University in Computer Science and a whole bunch of certifications to make himself feel important.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: OS X for the Road warrior
Chapter 2: Using OS X to Sling Multiplatform Code Chapter 3: A System Administrator's Guide to OS X Chapter 4: OS X Host Security
Chapter 5: OS X as a Status Symbol
Chapter 6: OS X as a PenTest Platform
Chapter 7: Wardriving with OS X
Chapter 8: OS X Scripting and Power Tools
Chapter 9: Stupid OS X Tricks