// Comparison
Hacking et Forensic vs Hacking: Which Should You Read?
Two cybersecurity books on Offensive, compared honestly: who each is for, what each does best, and which to read first.
Développez vos propres outils en Python
Franck Ebel, Jérôme Hennecart
A hands-on French guide to building your own offensive and forensic tools in Python — networking, packet crafting, web and forensic scripting — for people who'd rather write the tool than buy it.
Un labo virtuel pour auditer et mettre en place des contre-mesures
Franck Ebel, Jérôme Hennecart
A hands-on French guide to building a virtual lab (Proxmox) and using it to audit application, web and system flaws — then implement countermeasures.
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Key takeaways
- One of the few French books that teaches security by having you build the tools, not just run them.
- Python-centric and practical: networking, packet manipulation, web and forensic scripting from scratch.
- Best for the reader who already codes a little and wants to turn that into custom offensive/forensic capability.
- A practical French guide to building your own vulnerability lab and auditing it end to end.
- Covers application, web and system flaws with the matching countermeasures — attack and defence together.
- From 2013: the method holds, but expect to modernise the specific tools and lab stack.
How they compare
We rate Hacking et Forensic higher (4/5 against 3/5 for Hacking). For most readers, that means Hacking et Forensic is the primary pick and Hacking is a useful follow-up.
Both books target intermediate-level readers, so the choice is about topic, not difficulty.
Hacking et Forensic and Hacking both cover Offensive, Tooling, so reading them in sequence reinforces the same material from different angles.