Hacking: Beginner's Guide to Computer Hacking, Basic Security, Penetration Testing (Hacking, How to Hack, Penetration Testing, Basic security, Computer Hacking)

It does not deal with black hat hacking which is the real problem. If we don't identify illegal black hat hacking how could we protect our business. I bought it to know black hat as well as white hat hacking.Therefore the book is incomplete.

Good explaination,easy language. I liked this book.

Really helpful book for beginners. I like it's practical approach for penetration testing. It is Easy to move and understand while reading.

It is so fantastic book ,all any points are explain easely

No use.... 🙄🙄😬

Very good for beginers

I like this type books.

Total waste

This book is as basic as can be. It is merely a very high level overview bundled together to make something of a pamphlet. Were this to be around 50p, it may be worth the price. However it is not, it is more expensive than that.Do not buy, it is a waste of money, time and effort.

Very interesting reading

This book is interesting and have a lot of good informations like links or software recommendations.Well as it is well written and is easy to understand.But in a few parts there miss informations/ there are the informations too short.

I bought this book out of curiosity in order to get a basic idea on how I can learn to hack for everyday, ethical, and practical purposes. After reading this book, I do have a list of some basic links and resources I can access, but I am still in the dark about many of the technicalities behind hacking.Contrary to what the book claims, Hacking is not a “comprehensive guide to hacking,” and common sense validates this considering this book is less than 40 pages.Hacking first provides a brief description of the two types of hackers (white-hat and black-hat). It then details penetration testing and gives “advice” that essentially amounts to what you already know. This is one area where the book is deficient in that many of its prescriptions aren’t price-worthy.For example, the author writes that before you begin, “hacking requires you to create and execute plans,” “if you don’t know which tools to use, you may ask other people,” and in order to gather information about your target, do a Google search and look on social media. In other areas where Hacking does provide targeted advice (e.g. Scanning the target), it tends to use technical language without explaining exactly what it all means to laypeople. This was an expectation I had for a book designed for beginners. Hence, the book described what to do yet I had no idea of what the author was talking about.Chapter 3 (“The Most Popular Hacking Tricks”) is likely the most disappointing because it tells you things like you can steal someone else’s password by peering over their shoulder while they type and a “counter-measure” is to look around and make sure no one is looking while you’re at your workstation. Further advice on password-cracking includes guessing from inference.For a list price of 2.99, I can’t be overly upset over the disappointment found in this book. Ultimately, for the dissatisfaction you’ll only lose a couple of bucks and about 30 minutes of your time.

I definitely made a mistake buying the paperback. At 10 bucks, the 2.99 kindle price would have been better. It wasn't a complete loss, there are some generic procedures for penetration testing and lots of suggestions for software to use, but you're not going to learn much about hacking from this book. It would be good for Kindle Unlimited folks to take an hour to read through, make take some notes on software to check out, but its usefulness ends there. If you don't know much about computers, this might be a good start, however, it won't be worth its space on your bookshelf if you choose to learn.If it was a 5 dollar paperback, I would give it three stars because it could help beginners learn a few things on their way to becoming intermediate hackers, but this was about like an information desk at a museum - they tell you where things are, but nothing about the art.This one earned two stars (almost one, but there were some helpful suggestions and very limited examples in here, so I gave it another star) because of the <strong>giant font</strong> used along with <strong>double spacing</strong> to pad the book length. That's <strong>deception</strong>. You only have a hundred words on a page in the middle of a chapter (but the whole thing is like this) if you're trying to get the book to look longer than it is.