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Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual

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Finally, a book that doesn't teach you how to install Linux

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019

If you're tired of paying for books that claim to teach you hacking but fully a third of the book teaches you how to download and install Linux and Python in an insultingly simplistic hand-holding fashion. This is the book for you.
If you already use Linux daily or at least occasionally, know what apt-get is, and have taken at least an entry level class in programming. This book will get you further.

It is no nonsense. How to do X, how to do Y. What commands do them. Short cook book scripts. Common work arounds for permission elevation in various server environments.

It reads like a dictionary / reference book. I will be getting the Blue team manual soon because of it's useful straight forward all meat no filler style.

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Font size impossible to read/Faint gray courier font (4 pt.?) maybe

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2018

Very slight book, much more comprehensive references exist - this is all very available information. Still, a small subset could have proved useful - except that the binding make the book impossible to lie flat, and even if you can manage to read the headings, the text will elude you. Tiny, 4-5 pt gray font - make this book pretty useless. Will be returning since I already have books with this information...and I can actually read the type without a magnifying glass.

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Finally, a book that doesn't teach you how to install Linux

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019

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If you're tired of paying for books that claim to teach you hacking but fully a third of the book teaches you how to download and install Linux and Python in an insultingly simplistic hand-holding fashion. This is the book for you.
If you already use Linux daily or at least occasionally, know what apt-get is, and have taken at least an entry level class in programming. This book will get you further.

It is no nonsense. How to do X, how to do Y. What commands do them. Short cook book scripts. Common work arounds for permission elevation in various server environments.

It reads like a dictionary / reference book. I will be getting the Blue team manual soon because of it's useful straight forward all meat no filler style.

26 people found this helpful

Font size impossible to read/Faint gray courier font (4 pt.?) maybe

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2018

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Very slight book, much more comprehensive references exist - this is all very available information. Still, a small subset could have proved useful - except that the binding make the book impossible to lie flat, and even if you can manage to read the headings, the text will elude you. Tiny, 4-5 pt gray font - make this book pretty useless. Will be returning since I already have books with this information...and I can actually read the type without a magnifying glass.

14 people found this helpful

Nice Reference for Red Team Hackers

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018

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Great reference, though it's already showing age (some commands won't work, even for the latest operating systems). But the gist of the commands is correct and the thought processes behind it them are clear and easy to understand while pen testing, so a quick Google is a good remedy for some of the more obscure ones. Maybe needs a new updated version soon? Otherwise fantastic.

10 people found this helpful

Interested in an actual review?

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2014

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These are all fun and stuff, but there needs to be a few actual reviews.

This book is essentially a decade's worth of notes from an experienced network security engineer or pen tester. It looks like someone published an evernote notebook. Formatting is inconsistent and at times confusing. There is a fair amount of duplication. Placeholders are inconsistent. There is no descriptive text or explanatory notes. It is a list of commands, and nothing more.

If you are an experienced command line user, it is pretty awesome.

That said, with around 2000 commands in the book, there in exactly one page of index. It is impossible to find anything. If it is windows, that's great, narrows things down to about 30 pages that you have to flip through to find what you want. Even though I often know exactly what I am looking for, I still end up flipping through nearly every page in the book to find it. That is frustrating.

It's true that everything here can be found elsewhere online, but that's a lot like saying that a thesaurus is just a list of words that you can find online. The proper formatting of actually useful DOS net commands, for instance, is a great example of why the book is more useful than a Google search.

I'd say this is pretty much a must-own book for anyone that has to work with computers. If you are in charge of security or testing, even better. I wish it was better indexed, but can't have everything. Certainly worth the money.

375 people found this helpful

RaymondReddington17

Understand what it is and what it isn't

Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2017

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This is a reference book that already presumes you know what you're doing with penetration testing and tools related to that. It's not going to teach you what to do or how to use various tools, but what it will do is be a handy, organized place to lookup a command that you may have forgotten how to use. For that 5 stars all the way. If there's any criticism I guess the type could be a bit larger. Maybe all the info in it is available online in other places. But having it all in one place is very handy. This is a compact, well organized reference that every pen tester should own.

11 people found this helpful

Waste of 10 dollars, could've invested in something more...

Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2019

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Sure, it's a Reference Booklet, it's WAY FAR from even trying to be a manual...

83 pages as many others have said, with a huge amount of blank space. Sure you can get some commands you'd get by opening a second window and typing help...

The booklet saves around 4min if you're fast enough or even less if you google search.
The print should cost around 2 dollars with the information it has...

GOOD:
It's small, pretty portable.
It has a note section which is pretty useful and cute

BAD:
If it doesn't pass out as a communist manual then you're on the bright side and you probably don't need it just google search.
Wanna make your own duck scripts? TOO BAD , this ain't gonna help

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5 people found this helpful

CyberSec must buy!

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2019

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I was at first skeptical about this purchase as I wasn’t sure how the information was going to be presented. After reading the reviews and deciding to bite the bullet, I bought the book. First I will say, it shipped very quickly and was well packaged to survive UPS/FEDEX delivery. The book is about the size of a 7-8” tablet and is not thick at all. That being said, this book is packed full of great refresher information and it’s presented in a very good way. I highly recommended this nugget for anyone interested in Cyber Security. Whether you are Blue, Red or Null ( hahaha coulding Yelp myself) you will get good information out of this book.

3 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2015

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This pamphlet (not really a book at 83 pages) is a good reference for those who don't use these tools on a regular basis. Covers (VERY briefly) Linux/Unix tools, Windows tools, and exploits used against web servers, databases, and wireless networks. This read will not make you a hacker by any stretch of the imagination. Simply a quick reference for tools used by power users, system admins and pen testers.

The one big gripe I have with it is the print. It's hard enough to read in full daylight, let alone sitting in a dimly lit room with nothing but the glow of your LED monitor for light.

19 people found this helpful

If you keep reading that, you'll go blind.

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2020

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The book has a number of good commands that are useful for your troubleshooting and exploiting toolkit. It's just a shame that the font is only 2mm (1/16 inch) tall in UPPERCASE! To make matters worse, the color of the print looks like it is only 60%-80% black and looks more like grey/light grey. Forget about reading this in low light.
I'd love to read the actual material, but the printer decided to use discount ink. Seriously. Pencil annotations I made were darker than the actual print in the book.
For what it's worth, the Blue Team Field Manual I have has none of these problems.

Quality is poor.

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2019

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The content is pretty good, although I have not gone through everything. My issue is with the quality. The text is small and it is light. Very hard to read, unlike the Blue Team book which is much better.

4 people found this helpful

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