Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

by Paulino Calderon Pale

Overview

The book is a collection of easy to follow, practical recipes with explanations of the code, and links to further information. This book is for any security consultant, administrator or enthusiast looking to learn how to use and master Nmap and the Nmap Scripting Engine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849517492
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	11/23/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	318
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Paulino Calderon Pale (@calderpwn) is a very passionate software developer and penetration tester from a Caribbean island in Mexico called Cozumel. He learned to write code and administer IT infrastructures early in his life—skills that came handy when he joined the information security industry. Today, he loves learning new technologies, penetration testing, conducting data-gathering experiments, developing software, and contributing to the open source community. He maintains a blog of his public work at http://calderonpale.com. In the summer of 2011, he joined Google's Summer of Code program to work on the Nmap project as an NSE (Nmap Scripting Engine) developer. He focused on improving the web scanning capabilities of Nmap and has produced over 20 scripts for gathering information, and detecting and exploiting security vulnerabilities since then. He is the cofounder of Websec, an information security company focused on web security operation in Mexico (http://websec.mx) and Canada (http://websec.ca), where they help companies in different industries secure their IT infrastructures