The Nike Fuelband is an accelerometer/watch combo that allows you to track your steps, calories burned, and Nike fuel points earned. Nike fuel points are an arbitrary number assigned to how active you are. The points earned for various exercises will vary from person to person depending on weight and height. Here are a few tips to
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“The Tangled Web” written by Michal Zalewski and published by No Starch Press is a great way to learn about browsers, and web application security. What I like most about this book, and a lot of the No Starch Press books, is that this book is not a text book. Instead, this book is a story. That
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A Bug Hunter’s Diary: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Software Security is another great work from No Starch Press. This book, written by Tobias Klein, allows readers to learn the fundamentals of exploiting a variety of systems. Exploiting is the term referring to the general public’s view of hacking. Many books and articles written on security are very dated. They
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Metasploit is an open source framework for penetration testing. The Metasploit 4.0 framework is currently available for free download for Windows, Linux and Unix. “Metasploit The Penetration Tester’s Guide” is authored by Kennedy, O’Gorman, Kearns and Aharoni and is published by No Starch Press just this year 2011.The book opens with a short and sweet introduction
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IDA Pro is the worlds leading disassembler. This means that given a binary file without any source code IDA Pro will reverse engineer that file and attempt to give you something quite close to the original source. “The IDA Pro Book” by Chris Eagle, published by No Starch Press, is the book for anyone
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