Rtfm: Red Team Field Manual

I've been searching for a concise guide to operating system commands for some time. One day while feeling super empowered in my brand new extra black three wolf moon tee perusing the Wal-Mart book section I ran into this foxy babe sporting the sexiest polka dot spandex with just the right amount of cankle and muffin top; I knew I was in heaven; I told myself, she’s the one! This fox was telling her bulldagger friend about this mysterious interweb online store called amazon. Well I immediately grabbed my table sized tablet with both hands because it’s so heavy; it’s a big one at 24” and I made my move just like my idol Capt. Hammer would …After the swift kick in the family jewels and a subsequent hour of icing. I just so happened to find this gym of a book on Amazon. I’m still perplexed as to why amazon recommended it to me? Maybe it was my searches on male penis pumps and enhancement creams? I really can’t figure out why it was in the adult section “probably the sheer amount of cyber” but in any case the reviews looked fantastic and I had to get my hands on one of these little black books and drown myself in the cyber knowledge. I asked myself “Do you love me”. The sample pages amazon provided were breathtaking and I’m still perplexed at the sheer amount of cyber goodness that could be in one little black book. I had to know who this mysterious author was! I was curious so I looked or should I say stalked him on Google images and then I knew… I had to buy this fuzzy little man peaches work.I use to carry several books around and it's not often you can find such vast amount of information in such a little package. I immediately ordered the RTFM with my tax refund check. It was a huge investment but I feel it was a worthy exchange for all my hard earned money Uncle Sam kept safe for me. The day the RTFM arrived I was in my backyard shooting squirrels and I heard the ups truck rumbling down my driveway and I knew it was my little black package. The suspense was killing me. The driver handed me the baileys colored envelope and I tore it open right in front of him and our jaws dropped. WE KNEW WE WERE IN THE PRESENCE OF GREATNESS! The pages were so crisp and the smell, oh-my-gosh..Update: Feb 23 2014 0920The RTFM has made such an impact on my life. The back hump from the thirteen technical books is finally going way. It’s taken time but WOW what an impact on my life from such a tiny book. I recently had a cyber-gig and the customer was so impressed the company is giving the boot to its security staff and I’m taking over as the cyber czar.Update: Feb 23 2014 0921The RTFM has made me 1337… I am the CYBER king…….Update: Feb 23 2014 0937I’m so ashamed.. I was so excited I accidently broke my RTFM. It will never be the same and I’ll have to wait a whole year to be able to afford another copy….Update: Feb 23 2014 0941Oh no my boss knows about the RTFM and its mysterious powers. I just bumped into that that foxy lady from Wal-Mart in the work cafetorium. Life is looking up.

After just a few hours of having this book it actually makes me want to go and rate all the rest of my it books that I bought lower! I love the idea of just getting straight to the point! I'm glad it's not another book out of a thousand pages 800 are just useless information and page fill. I want my manual to be straight Man pages! No joke...As another reviewer had stated finally a book that doesn't tell you how to install Linux! If you're at a point where you are using something like this you know how... This might be one of the best books on this subject I've ever bought there is no padding, no garbage! straight to the point in my pictures that's the first page straight to the commands just a list done! it's perfect I want more books like this! It might actually get used unlike some of the other ones I've bought in the past. I don't need half the book to be useless info, grab this, look for the command you can't remember, and continue work. I'm getting the rest of them I think there's three in this set all together red team, purple team, blue team.I bought the used copy and it's definitely been sitting on a shelf for a while it had about 3 inches of dust but it still has all the pages I am happy with this purchase!

I've been pentesting for 20 years and this little book has all my tricks. Very good reference material. Recommend for both seasoned pro and people just getting in to the cyber security field.

It's not a novel and it won't flow like one. I give it five because I have used GNU/Linux since 2004~ and everything else has been windows. If you're not experienced with command prompt or terminals then you likely won't make any sense of this book. It's a handy, really slow, quick reference guide. Wait until you're in obscure places without internet access and you just can't remember that command. This book goes everywhere with me now and it has helped me make quick work of systems with which I'm less familiar.This won't make you a "hacker," but it will definitely make your life easier if you're a security or IT professional. For $9 you get someone's acquired knowledge. Like others said, it's a book of commands with no way to index and no explanations.

Pro: Compressed, grouped, and a good referenceCon: This does seem more oriented for script kiddiesHere are two poor examples from the book.1) find -i -name <file> -type *.pdfMany of the operating system manuals would say "-i -name" is inaccurate; I've found that it would be "-iname" Then, many of the manuals I've encountered do not accept a glob for the "-type" argument; it uses a character like b (for block special), f (for file), d (for directory). I'm unsure if this outdated arguments or if the manual was not referenced or if its from a *NIX system that I've not encountered. This command should now just be "find -iname *.pdf"2) tcpdump -i eth0 port 80 dst 2.2.2.2This is under the title of "Capture HTTP Traffic to 2.2.2.2," which is entirely misleading; it's not possible to monitor the traffic to a remote host without having a sensor between the Internet and the node. Yes, you can monitor YOUR traffic to 2.2.2.2 on port 80 using this command - and I'd refer to "man tcpdump" for your OS's syntax. The command would most likely be "tcpdump -i eth0 host 2.2.2.2 and tcp port 80"Although there have been these two errors, I can say that there are plenty of nuggets worth trying from this book - if at least to help focus your efforts. I recommend being prepared to referring to your man pages on *NIX hosts, and other documentation online.