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Save yourself some money! This complete classroom-in-a-book on penetration testing provides material that can cost upwards of $1,000 for a fraction of the price! Thomas Wilhelm has delivered pen testing training to countless security professionals and now through the pages of this book you can benefit from his years of experience as a professional penetration tester and educator. After reading this book you will be able to create a personal penetration test lab that can deal with real-world vulnerability scenarios. Penetration testing is the act of testing a network to find security vulnerabilities before they are exploited by phishers, digital piracy groups, and countless other organized or individual malicious hackers. The material presented will b...

Master JavaEE Design Pattern implementation to improve your coding efficiency Professional JavaEE Design Patterns is the ultimate guide to working more efficiently with JavaEE, and the only resource that covers both the theory and application of design patterns in solving real-world problems. The authors guide readers through both the fundamentals and little-known secrets of JavaEE6/7, presenting patterns throughout, and demonstrating how they are used in day-to-day programming. As the standard computing platform in community-driven enterprise software, JavaEE provides an API and runtime environment above and beyond JavaSE. Written for the experienced JavaEE developer hoping to improve code quality and efficiency, the book contains time saving patter...

* Offers hands-on tips and numerous code examples that show Web developers how to leverage content and feeds from today's top Web sites-including Google, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Yahoo!, and FedEx * Introduces APIs (Application Program Interfaces) in general and uses real-world examples that show how to produce and document them * Explains how to use the popular scripting language PHP to create APIs that interact with unrelated applications over the Web * Examples take readers through each stage of the API process, from basic test implementations to integration with existing sites...

Break into the powerful world of parallel GPU programming with this down-to-earth, practical guideDesigned for professionals across multiple industrial sectors, Professional CUDA C Programming presents CUDA -- a parallel computing platform and programming model designed to ease the development of GPU programming -- fundamentals in an easy-to-follow format, and teaches readers how to think in parallel and implement parallel algorithms on GPUs. Each chapter covers a specific topic, and includes workable examples that demonstrate the development process, allowing readers to explore both the "hard" and "soft" aspects of GPU programming.Computing architectures are experiencing a fundamental shift toward scalable parallel computing moti...