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 Greasemonkey Hacks is an invaluable compendium 100 ingenious hacks for power users who want to master Greasemonkey, the hot new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. With Greasemonkey, you can create scripts that make a web site more usable, fix rendering bugs that site owners can't be bothered to fix themselves, or add items to a web site's menu bar. You can alter pages so they work better with technologies that speak a web page out loud or convert it to Braille. Greasemonkey gurus can even import, combine, and alter data from different web sites to meet their own specific needs. Greasemonkey has achieved a cult-like following in its short lifespan, but its uses are just beginning to be explored. Let's say you're shopping on an e-commerce site. You can create a script that will automatically display competitive prices for that particular product from other web sites. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your Greasemonkey expertise. Greasemonkey Hacks can't help you with the imagination part, but it can provide the expert hacks-complete with the sample code-you need to turn your brainstorms into reality. More than just an essential collection of made-to-order Greasemonkey solutions, Greasemonkey Hacks is crammed with sample code, a Greasemonkey API reference, and a comprehensive list of resources, to ensure that every resource you need is available between its covers. Some people are content to receive information from websites passively; some people want to control it. If you are one of the latter, Greasemonkey Hacks provides all the clever customizations and cutting-edge tips and tools you need to take command of any web page you view.  In the Hacking Revealed course from LearnKey, system
administrators, network security analysts, and IT professionals, who
desire a broader understanding of security, learn how to protect their
networks from external attack. Expert instructor Dale Brice-Nash
explains what motivates hackers and examines hacker tools. He will
demonstrate potential system vulnerabilities, hacker methodologies,
current exploits, and effective approaches to risk management. At the
conclusion of this course, you’ll understand how to evaluate hacker
threats and how to avoid them. More info:
http://www.learnkey.com/store/images/HackingRevealed.asp  You're up late, banging away at your keyboard. You find the hole you
were looking for. Now you just find the right directory, copy a couple
files, back right out of the system, and erase your tracks. Within 15
minutes of finding a back door into the network, you've downloaded
transaction data for all credit card transactions within the last two
years. You'd think credit card processing companies would be more
secure than that.The
FBI should be busting down your door any minute now. But they won't.
You print out your keystroke logger info. You make a phone call. "I got
in." They don’t believe it. But when you deliver the keystroke log the
next day, they’re floored. They cut you a check, and offer you an even
bigger contract to help them fix the hole. Do things that should get you arrested – but get paid instead. Ethical Hacking is so cool.  In
these times of cheap storage and increased processing power and network
traffic, asking a question to “the log” becomes more and more similar
to executing a data-mining query. Most of the times “the log” does
contain the answers you are looking for, but they’re buried under
countless useless entries, and scattered across countless,
heterogeneous log files; as Jake Babbin, the lead author of this book,
elegantly puts it, the answers you are looking for are patterns in
chaos. And the news is that someone has to find those patterns. And it
might be you. The purpose of this book is to show you exactly how to do
that, tackling at the same time all the various problems pertinent to
log generation, storage, processing, and reporting.
Whether
or not you are the one charged with asking questions to “the log,”
after reading this book, you will agree that finding the patterns in
chaos is actually not as daunting as you would have believed, and that
creative solutions like the ones adopted by Jake will go a long way in
making your job—and your quest—easier. |
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