Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "We can see that we used the post/windows/manage/inject_host module on SESSION 1, and inserted the entry into the target's host file."

A block of code is set as follows:

 irb(main):001:0> 2=> 2 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

 msf > openvas_config_list[+] OpenVAS list of configs 

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Click ...

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