Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows:

"In this particular case, the VM has been assigned an IP address of 192.168.204.132."

A block of code is set as follows:

[default]
f=open('exfiltrated_hex.txt','r')
hex_data=f.read()
ascii_data=hex_data.decode('hex')
print ascii_data

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

# root@kali~# update-rc.d networking defaults

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Clicking on the Next button takes you to the next screen."