Editorial Review

Computing hardware would have no value without software; software tells hardware what to do. Software therefore must have special authority within computing systems. All computer security problems stem from that fact, and Read more

Reviews (26)

Want to fix things instead of break them?
One of the authors here.
Why we use it for a graduate class
The one major strength of this book, from a computer science viewpoint, is its emphasis on "attack patterns".This systemization of these issues really differentiates this book from many of its competitors (which tend to be either the latest 500 hacks or descriptions of standards).Put simply CS is the study of algorithms, and this book fits nicely into that tradition.

great book
I am a relative novice to programming and exploitation however this book was truly a mind exciting experience. I found all of it's content to be useful, although I would say that this text is definately for an advanced user or someone quite motivated to understand the ideas presented as it delves into quite a bit of detail demanding advanced knowledge of several languages. Although there is a lot of info in this book, I would say that if you do not already know how to exploit a system in a basic form, you will be lost immediately as a step by step proceedure is not given but assumed to be known. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - General Information    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computer Data Security    4. Computer Programs Testing    5. Computer hackers    6. Computer security    7. Computer software    8. Computers    9. Computers - Computer Security    10. Networking - General    11. Programming - Systems Analysis & Design    12. Security - General    13. Testing    14. Computers / Internet / Security    15. Software engineering   

Reviews (22)

Fun, Fun, Fun
I read a lot of technical books and also a lot of spy books.This mashed both of my favorite types of books. The authors who are hackers themselves did a great job of creating a story.I would recommend, and have recommended this book to a lot of people.
Fun, Entertaining...
but the writing certainly isn't the best.They're a bunch of computer geeks writing about what they know best, and they make it entertaining as heck.I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys computers.

How do you make a how-to-hack book into a compelling read?
Well, you can make a novel out of it.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computers    3. Computers - Computer Security    4. Networking - General    5. Security - General    6. Computer Communications & Networking    7. Computer hackers    8. Computer security    9. Computers / Computer Security    10. Computers / Security    11. Cyberterrorism   

Reviews (13)

Great easy-to-understand quick references
This is a great, easy to read and use reference for both non-technical business leaders as well as IT professionals.It is also a great resource for home computer users, and small- to medium-sized businesses who often do not have the resources to hire dedicated security staff.The book covers the entire spectrum of ways in which computer systems can be compromised and attacked, an easy-to-understand description of how the exploits are executed, and, usually lacking in other reference books on this topic, step-by-step instructions for not only how to identify when the hacks occur, but also how to defend against them.Kevin Beaver also includes some very important warnings you need to keep in mind when performing your own vulnerability and hacking tests against your own network and systems to discover your own technical weaknesses.

GREAT FOR THE UNEXPERIENCED
This book is great for beginners, it talks about the ethical hacker and penetration tests. However it also gives out information that can be used for blackhat hacking. It walks you through a tutorialstep by step, and gives out names of some other books that can be helpful. If you have no or little experience this book is for you.

Real world information for Network Security
Hacking for Dummies sets a foundation for ethical hacking and should be used as more than the proverbial "how to". When reading the pages, try to realize that you are not just learning true methods of attack; you are also gaining valuable information for prevention.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer hackers    3. Computer networks    4. Computer security    5. Computers    6. Computers - Computer Security    7. Security - General    8. Security measures    9. Computers / Security    10. Data security & data encryption   

Reviews (17)

Delivers what others promise
This has the most straightforward exposition of exploits.
Excellent book, highly recommended!
This book is fantastic- one of a kind, by far :)
fair intro to disassembly
I give the author credit for a decent intro to disassembly, but it's a difficult path with this book. Expensive tools are assumed to be available (no reference is made to free alternatives), and less than subtle remarks about using these tools to make commercial software "free".
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Programs Debugging    3. Computer programming    4. Computer security    5. Computers    6. Computers - Computer Security    7. Debugging in computer science    8. Programming - General    9. Programming - Systems Analysis & Design    10. Security - General    11. Computer fraud & hacking    12. Computers / Security    13. Data security & data encryption   

Reviews (1)

Exactly, precisely what I needed
In this book, the author talks to me, the most fledgling of geeks, in terms I can understand so that I can grasp the concepts I didn't understand. He gives instructions I can follow. I get the results I want. I'm devouring this book and learning at an incredible pace. It is extremely well organized, things are where you expect to find them. This is a generous author. The supporting website at http://www.myspaceismyplace.com is just as user-friendly and as giving as this book. I recommend this most highly. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer - Internet    2. Computer Books: Internet General    3. Computer network resources    4. Computers    5. Design    6. Internet - General    7. Social networks    8. Web sites    9. Computers / Internet / General    10. World Wide Web (WWW)   

Subjects:  1. Computers - Communications / Networking    2. Design and construction    3. Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology    4. Meteorological instruments    5. Nature    6. Nature/Ecology    7. Networking - General    8. Weather    9. Computer graphics software    10. Nature / Weather   

Features

• Illustrated

Reviews (13)

Network Security Hacks
The book is very well written in a professional form. I was able tolearn a lot out of it. It should be in every IT security persons library. But it is not a book for beginners. Although all issues are well explained, a certain computer background is needed, and not basic knowledge only. The book is worth its price.
A good book for both Linux and Windows
First, I write software professionally. I write software, I am not a Sys Admin (which is hard work I might add; System Administration is for hardcore people.) This book saved me money by giving me answers to problems that would have taken me days to find the answers to by searching the internet.
insight into security
Security has been high on my list of things to understand and master these past two years. Our company's firewall has been breached numerous times. This has scared the living daylights out of our stakeholders. I have therefore been forced to become an expert. This is one of the books that has helped me attain this level of understanding. It offers insights not available in regular how to guides on security. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Operating Systems    2. Computer Data Security    3. Computer networks    4. Computers    5. Computers - Computer Security    6. Networking - General    7. Operating Systems - Linux    8. Operating Systems - UNIX    9. Security - General    10. Security measures    11. Computers / Computer Security    12. Computers / Security    13. Computers/Networking - General    14. Data security & data encryption   

Editorial Review

Mike Schiffman has hit upon a great formula for Read more

Reviews (21)

Good, but scenarios getting out of date
The Challenge/Solution style of these books are great for security beginners as well as seasoned professionals.If you read carefully you can pick up many hints/tools which you can use in real life security scenarios.
uhm..
this book sucks.plain and simple. i have some respect for the author, i've used his libnet and he's a funny guy.. but this book is garbage.the last good thing mike schiffman wrote was libnet, and after that he figured why not just take it easy and write dumb books like this for the rest of his life, be a manager @stake and get paid way more than the researchers who are doing the actual work. he goes into stupid crap like backdoors in inetd.conf, how outdated can you get..what is this?incident response to that crappy phrack article he wrote years and years ago about simple unix backdoors?hah.the real challenge here is for a real hacker to read the whole book and maintain his sanity.

GOOD Book
I have read many books about network security, but none had put it so easy to actually test the knowledge gain from my reading.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Operating Systems    2. Computer Data Security    3. Computers    4. Computers - Communications / Networking    5. Networking - General    6. Security    7. Security - General   

Reviews (7)

Good stuff
If you are working with Windows Server 2003 security, this is pretty good stuff. For one thing, it gives you the background on a lot of the security features that Microsoft has placed in Group Policy as well as their security recommendations in White Papers. By the way, I suggest you download the Threats and Countermeasures guide from the Microsoft web site, if you don't already have it. That would go very well with this book!

Excellent Resource for Windows Server 2003 Admins
Hacking Exposed- Windows Server 2003 is the latest addition to the Hacking Exposed series of books. Joel Scambray and Stuart McClure have teamed up to create another excellent source of information to help you understand the weaknesses in your Windows Server 2003 system and what you can do to defend against them.
Not the ultimate Windows 2003 security book, but still solid
"Hacking Exposed: Windows 2000" (HE:W2K) was published in August 2001, eight months after the W2K OS was released to manufacturing (RM) in December 1999."Hacking Exposed: Windows 2003" (HE:W03) was published in October 2003, seven months after the Windows 2003 OS was RTM.Does the shorter gap between OS availability and book publication hurt the successor to the original hit Windows security book?It's possible, but I don't see many contenders for the title of best Windows assessment guide.Because this book delivers the technical goods in a proven format, I give HE:W03 four stars.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Communications / Networking    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computer security    4. Computers    5. Computers - Computer Security    6. Microcomputer Operating Environments    7. Microsoft Windows (Computer fi    8. Microsoft Windows (Computer file)    9. Networking - General    10. Security - General    11. Computer Communications & Networking    12. Computer fraud & hacking    13. Computers / Security    14. Data security & data encryption    15. Microsoft Windows   

Reviews (1)

Set yourself free from Commercial PVRs
You can get Tivos for only a couple hundred dollars.Many cable companies offer Tivo-like services for only $10-$20 extra a month.Why would you want to undertake building your own PVR(Personal Video Recorder)?
Read more

Subjects:  1. Authoring programs    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computers    4. Computers - General Information    5. Hardware - Handheld Computing    6. Interactive & Multimedia    7. Interactive multimedia    8. Interactive television    9. Multimedia systems    10. Computer Hardware & Operating Systems    11. Computers / Hardware / Handheld Computing    12. Television technology   

Reviews (19)

Not worth it
I bought this book at Borders knowing that it was about customizing and not "hacking."What I didn't know was that you had to download so many programs from the web, which many people (including myself) are not comfortable with, before you can begin customizing in the first place.I've experienced problems with several of the things the author says to download, and found spyware on my computer, which is brand new, that was not previously there (VVSN.exe, a registered security risk according to liutilities.com).I would not recommend this book to anyone; I'm sure there are better ones out there that are more worth your time and money.

Only OK -- Mostly Surface Hacks, nothing too deep
I was hoping for a more in-depth guide to XP, but this book is mostly surface changes to the appearance.Cute, but hardly deep hacking.I'll probably be selling this book very soon, if that tells you what a treasure it is.

DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY
very dissapponting. i orederd this book with high hopes onlly to be shot down. i knew everything in this book. im not gonna say things were wrong but they were things you dont want to do. the writer instructs you to do things that are not at all something you want to do. and yes he is right when he says "follow my directions you'll see a big change" yes a change in deed a bad change please do not waste your money you can find the same info on a website free. just google what your looking for. my computer know is very high. i have even interned at jp morgan chase. installing software and fixing/installing computers for the higher ups. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Operating Systems    2. Computer operating systems    3. Computers    4. Computers - Operating Systems    5. Microcomputer Operating Environments    6. Microsoft Windows (Computer file)    7. Operating Systems - NT    8. Operating systems (Computers)    9. Computers / Operating Systems / NT    10. Data security & data encryption    11. Microsoft Windows    12. Network security   

Reviews (8)

quick "How to's ..."
When trying to figure out how to implement something, do you ever wish that the examples you find would just 'cut to the chase'? ... skip the theory & just show me a rough idea of how to go about it?
Great resource
If you've worked with PHP for a while, you probably already know some of the hacks in this book - I did. But it did give me several ideas and I definitely picked up some new tricks and tips from it, so it was worth the buy for me. I love the "hack" books - I always learn something new!

good examples and good source code...
This is a very real world book, and gives some good examples with accurate working source code.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer - Internet    2. Computer Books: Languages    3. Computers    4. Computers - Languages / Programming    5. Internet - Web Site Design    6. PHP (Computer program language)    7. Programming Languages - General    8. Computers / Internet / Web Site Design    9. Computers / Languages / Programming    10. Computers / Programming Languages / General    11. Computers/Internet - Web Site Design    12. Design    13. Internet languages    14. PHP, pear, php 5, mysql, web, scripting, website, programming, web database, hacks, hacking    15. Special purpose languages    16. Web sites   

Features

• Illustrated

Reviews (4)

Excellent Practical Advice for Perl Programmers
If your a serious Perl programmer or a long-time Perl scripter whose looking to broaden your horizons then this is an excellent book. Surprisingly, this is really a Perl book for professional Perl developers, sys-admins, and scripters. This book avoids parlor-tricks like "Controlling your coffee maker with Perl" and focuses on how best to make writing and testing Perl code quick, easy, and sometimes even fun.
Perl manual or detective stories?It's both!
Perl hacks is an intriguing book which explores specific problems and their quite practical solutions.This book is easy to dive in and out of.It reads more like a collection of bite sized detective stories rather than a novel.
A toolbox and tutorial for the working Perl programmer
This book is for experienced working Perl programmers - most likely system administrators but not necessarily - that need working solutions to real problems you'll most likely find in the workplace. There are a few diversions into such "cute" ideas as building animations in Perl, but most of these hacks are for the working programmer who is looking for ways to automate processes, build interfaces that don't get in the way of developers, and thoroughly test and simulate code. Amazon does not show the table of contents so I review this book in the context of the table of contents.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: Languages    2. Computers    3. Computers - Languages / Programming    4. Internet - World Wide Web    5. Perl (Computer program language)    6. Programming - Software Development    7. Programming Languages - CGI, Javascript, Perl, VBScript    8. Programming Languages - Perl    9. Computers / Languages / Programming    10. Computers / Programming Languages / CGI, JavaScript, Perl, VBScript    11. Computers / Programming Languages / Perl    12. Perl, hack, hacks, testing, debugging, profiling, data munging, modules, databases, introspection, chromatic, Nathan Torkington    13. Programming languages   

Reviews (11)

Super Book
They don't make them like this anymore. Amid the "Learning XXX in 21 days" and various other computer book for which depth is almost non existent (and are read like eating peanuts), this is a refreshing book that talks about solutions to sometimes common (IMHO) coding problems.
Like a bejeweled fountain pen--beautiful, but sadly outdated
A perennial topic of conversation among computer programmers is whether programs are art or not. Some algorithms are so beautiful, so elegantly executed, that the aesthetic is undeniable.But is it art?
Magic
First of all, the book itself is incredible.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Languages / Programming    2. Computer Books: General    3. Computer Programming    4. Computer Science    5. Computer hackers    6. Computers    7. Computers - Languages / Programming    8. Hardware - Personal Computers - General    9. Microcomputer Application Software    10. Programming - Algorithms    11. Programming - General    12. Computers / Programming / Systems Analysis & Design    13. Data security & data encryption   

Subjects:  1. Computer sex    2. Human Sexuality    3. Love / Sex / Marriage    4. Mental Illness    5. Psychology    6. Sex addiction    7. Sex counseling    8. Computer fraud & hacking    9. Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality    10. Psychotherapy    11. Sex & sexuality   

Reviews (3)

THE CSI OF COMPUTER EVIDENCE!!
Are you a law enforcement officer, system administrator, IT professional, legal professional or a computer forensics student? If you are, this book is for you! Author Christopher LT Brown, has done an outstanding job of writing a great book by focusing on the first two phases of the computer forensics process: computer evidence collection and preservation.
The Most Comprehensive Book on the Subject
This is a timely book as we are hearing more and more about the U.S. military and intelligence agencies collecting the computers used by terrorists. This same trend is appearing in conventional law enforcement. The amount of information that can be stored on a computer is, of course huge, also important is the transient: What web site is the computer viewing? What e-mail system is on-line? What can be gotten from the router being used?
Great resource
It seems that a lot of books on forensics concentrate on making a disk image of the hard drive being examined, filtering the information on the disk, and presenting it in proper format for court use.However, collecting and preserving the evidence is much more than imaging the hard disk.If the computer is still on then evidence may be in memory, potential evidence may be on routers, proxy servers, etc.This book details this part of forensic evidence gathering, an area often just skimmed over in other computer forensics texts.This is a critical aspect of investigation because it does not matter how well your filtering works and how much evidence you obtain if your data preservation was not done correctly and the evidence is inadmissible in court.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer crimes    3. Computers    4. Computers - Computer Security    5. Computers - General Information    6. Forensic Science    7. Information Technology    8. Investigation    9. Security    10. Security - General    11. Computers / Networking / General    12. Criminal investigation & detection    13. Data security & data encryption   

Reviews (7)

An excellent reference but...
for anyone conducting an investigation, this is the epitome of a textbook reference book hybrid.The book provides a good overview of the most popular tools on the market and how to effectively use them during the investigative process, as well as legal requirements for evidence handling and tracking.
A VITAL reference book
This book has been an extremely valuable reference for me and my coworkers on any subject related to forensics that we have encountered in our investigations. This is the only book I've found that covers the laws of forensics as well as technical details of analysis.I strongly recommend this book to anyone that is involved in computer forensics.

Great Information in Familiar Hacking Exposed Format
I am never really disappointed in any of the Hacking Exposed series of books. While some of the information may be redundant or appear in other books from the series, Hacking Exposed more or less built, never mind set, the bar for this type of book and each book in the series does an admirable, if not exemplary job of conveying the intended information.
Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computers    3. Computers - Communications / Networking    4. Networking - General    5. Security - General    6. Computers / Security    7. Data security & data encryption    8. Network security   

Reviews (1)