Screencast: Samurai offers pen-testing nirvana

In this month's SearchSecurity.com screencast, Peter Giannoulis of The Academy Home and The Academy Pro demonstrates the Samurai Web Testing Framework, a free, live Linux distro pre-configured to function as a stand-alone Web pen-testing environment that has numerous tools like Maltego and Nmap built in.

Below, Peter shows how to install and use SamuraiWTF not only...

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About the author:
Peter Giannoulis, GSEC, GCIH, GCIA, GCFA, GCFW, GREM, CISSP, is an information security consultant in Toronto, Ontario. He currently maintains The Academy Home and The Academy Pro, which provide streaming video for enterprises and consumers on how to configure and troubleshoot many of today's top security products. He also serves as a technical director for GIAC.

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