OS X for Hackers at Heart (eBook)

Chris Hurley, Johnny Long, Tom Owad, Bruce Potter, Russ Rogers (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2005 | 1. Auflage
512 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-048948-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The sexy, elegant design of the Apple PowerBook combined with the Unix-like OS X operating system based on FreeBSD, have once again made OS X the Apple of every hacker's eye. In this unique and engaging book covering the brand new OS X 10.4 Tiger, the world's foremost true hackers unleash the power of OS X for everything form cutting edge research and development to just plain old fun.

OS X 10.4 Tiger is a major upgrade for Mac OS X for running Apple's Macintosh computers and laptops. This book is not a reference to every feature and menu item for OS X. Rather, it teaches hackers of all types from software developers to security professionals to hobbyists, how to use the most powerful (and often obscure) features of OS X for wireless networking, WarDriving, software development, penetration testing, scripting administrative tasks, and much more.

* Analyst reports indicate that OS X sales will double in 2005. OS X Tiger is currently the #1 selling software product on Amazon and the 12-inch PowerBook is the #1 selling laptop

* Only book on the market directly appealing to groundswell of hackers migrating to OS X

* Each chapter written by hacker most commonly associated with that topic, such as Chris Hurley (Roamer) organizer of the World Wide War Drive

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The sexy, elegant design of the Apple PowerBook combined with the Unix-like OS X operating system based on FreeBSD, have once again made OS X the Apple of every hacker's eye. In this unique and engaging book covering the brand new OS X 10.4 Tiger, the world's foremost "e;true hackers unleash the power of OS X for everything form cutting edge research and development to just plain old fun.OS X 10.4 Tiger is a major upgrade for Mac OS X for running Apple's Macintosh computers and laptops. This book is not a reference to every feature and menu item for OS X. Rather, it teaches hackers of all types from software developers to security professionals to hobbyists, how to use the most powerful (and often obscure) features of OS X for wireless networking, WarDriving, software development, penetration testing, scripting administrative tasks, and much more.* Analyst reports indicate that OS X sales will double in 2005. OS X Tiger is currently the #1 selling software product on Amazon and the 12-inch PowerBook is the #1 selling laptop * Only book on the market directly appealing to groundswell of hackers migrating to OS X * Each chapter written by hacker most commonly associated with that topic, such as Chris Hurley (Roamer) organizer of the World Wide War Drive

Inhalt

Contents 11
Foreword 21
Chapter 1 A Network Admin’s Guide to Using Mac OS X 25
Running a Headless Mac 27
Adding Interfaces to the Mac 43
The Macintosh as a Router 49
Mac OS X as a RADIUS server 66
Chapter 2 Automation 77
Using Automator 79
Understanding AppleScript 105
Bash Scripting 124
Using Bash, AppleScript, and Automator Together! 163
Chapter 3 OS X in a Microsoft Environment 183
Accessing Network File Systems 187
NTLM Authentication 196
Connecting to a Windows PPTP Server 204
Zen of Running Windows Boxes from a Mac 209
Chapter 4 WarDriving and Wireless Penetration Testing with OS X 247
WarDriving with KisMAC 248
Penetration Testing with OS X 268
Other OS X Tools for WarDriving and WLAN Testing 274
Chapter 5 Mac OS X for Pen Testers 281
The OS X Command Shell 284
Compiling and Porting Open Source Software 288
Using The “Top 75 Security Tools” List 312
Installing and Using The “Big” Tools 325
Other OS X “Must Haves” 330
Chapter 6 Mac Tricks (Stupid Powerbook Stunts That Make You Look Like a God) 341
Desktop Console 342
Screen Savers 344
Widgets 346
Apple Motion Sensor 352
VNC with Apple Remote Desktop 355
Gestures 358
Sogudi 361
GUI Scripts 363
Chapter 7 OS X For the Road Warrior 371
Safe and Secure E-mail 372
Battery Management 385
Appendix A Hacking the iPod 393
Opening Your iPod 398
Replacing the iPod Battery 406
Upgrading a 5GB iPod’s Hard Drive 421
From Mac to Windows and Back Again 433
iPod Diagnostic Mode 437
Additional iPod Hacks 442
iPod Resources on the Web 444

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.12.2005
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Macintosh / Mac OS X
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• ISBN-10: 0-08-048948-6 / 0080489486
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-048948-3 / 9780080489483