S. Boominathan
About the Author
Aaron Johns currently works for Intrasect Technologies as an IT Specialist. He provides support for over 160 clients. His work roles include maintaining business networks and security policies to increase operational efficiencies and reduce costs.
Aaron also publishes videos and books for Packt Publishing, one of the most prolific and fast-growing tech book publishers in the world. He has also filmed several independent videos.
Aaron started broadcasting YouTube videos in 2007. In 2009, he was offered a partnership with YouTube. He has provided security awareness to over 1.2 million viewers and 6,300 subscribers. As of today, Aaron still serves as a Technology Partner for YouTube. He is also in partnership with Symantec Corporation and Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. You'll also find Aaron as a guest or interviewed as a security professional on several YouTube videos and podcasts.
His qualifications and certifications include a bachelor's degree from International Business College where he majored in network administration as well as several industry certifications such as WCSP-XTM.
To find out more, you can visit his website at http://www.aaronjohns.com/.
I would like to thank my wife, Megan, for always being supportive and my colleague Nathan for helping me perfect my IT knowledge and skills. I would also like to thank my best friend Zack for all the good times we've had together in life. In addition, I would like to thank my niece, Madalynn, and nephew, Cody, for their hugs and laughter they bring to me. Special thanks goes to my Dad, Mom, and brother; it is people like you that make my life amazing and entertaining!
About the Reviewers
S. Boominathan is a highly professional security expert with more than 3 years of experience in the field of information security, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing. He is currently working with a bellwether of an India-based MNC and feels privileged to be a part of the company. He has various certifications, including N+, CCNA, CCSA, CEHv8, CHFI v4, and QCP (QualysGuard Certified Professional), and is a wireless pentesting expert. He has worked in various fields simultaneously, such as malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, network pentesting, and wireless pentesting.
I would like to thank my parents, Sundaram and Valli, and my wife, Uthira, for all their support and my brother, Sriram, for helping me to review this book thoroughly. I would also like to thank the author and Packt Publishing for providing the opportunity to review this book.
Danang Heriyadi is an Indonesian computer security researcher who specializes in reverse engineering and software exploitation and has more than 5 years of hands-on experience.
He is currently working at Hatsecure as an instructor for Advanced Exploit and ShellCode Development. As a researcher, he loves to share IT security knowledge on his blog at FuzzerByte (http://www.fuzzerbyte.com).
I would like to thank my parents for giving me life; without them, I wouldn't be here today. I would also like to thank my girlfriend for supporting me every day with smiles and love, and also all my friends, who I can't describe one by one.
Tajinder Singh Kalsi is an entrepreneurthe co-founder and technical evangelist at Virscent Technologies Pvt. Ltd.with more than 7 years of working experience in the field of IT. He commenced his career with WIPRO as a technical associate, and later became an IT consultant-cum-trainer. As of now, he conducts seminars in colleges all across India on topics such as information security, Android application development, website development, and cloud computing. He has reached more than 125 colleges and nearly 9500+ students to date.
As well as training, he also maintains a couple of blogs (www.virscent.com/blog and www.tajinderkalsi.com/blog) that discuss various hacking tricks. He also reviewed the book titled Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux and Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing , both by Packt Publishing.
Catch him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tajinder.kalsi.tj or follow his website at www.tajinderkalsi.com.
I would like to thank the team of Packt Publishing for coming across me through my blog and offering me this opportunity again. I would also like to thank my family and close friends for all the support they have given while I was working on this project.
Deep Shankar Yadav is an InfoSec professional with more than 6 years of comprehensive experience in various verticals of IS. His domains of expertise are mainly in cyber-crime investigations, digital forensics analysis, wireless security, VAPT, mobile security, exploit development, compliance for mandates and regulations, and IT GRC.
Awarded with the bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India, he also possesses several industry-recognized certifications such as Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator (CH|FI), K7 Certified Enterprise Security Associate, and more.
He has been closely associated with Indian law enforcement agencies for over 4 years, dealing with digital crime investigations and related training, during the course of which he received several awards and appreciation from senior officials of the police and defense organizations in India. Utilizing his individual expertise, he has solved many cases on cybercrimes, such as phishing, data theft, espionage, credit card fraud, several social media fake profile impersonation cases, e-mail hacking, SMS spoofing, cyber pornography, cybercrime cases, and identity theft, to the extent that he is also acknowledged by Facebook, PayPal, Mozilla, Microsoft, and CERT-IN for fishing out vulnerable threats.