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Title: Hacker's Challenge : Test Your Incident Response Skills Using 20 Scenarios by Mike Schiffman ISBN: 0-07-219384-0 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 18 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More useful than a kick in the nuts.
Comment: I've had many a kick in the nuts, and they range from bothersome to excruciating, like many computer security texts. This book superceeded all those kicks in the nuts, and even beat out most punches in the face.
After I read chapter 5 on wireless security, I threw my pager out the window and cursed the name of its inventor for the security issues it had introduced into my network.
From here on out, it's only semaphores for communication, and nothing else!
Rating: 5
Summary: The real thing...
Comment: So, you'd like to know more about real security incidents and computer forensics... then this could be your book!
Note however, that for the book being profitable, you should already have a good understanding of the matter.
The presentation is a bit melodramatic trying to sell a 'mystery' image. Twenty cases of security incidents are presented under suggestive names (e.g., 'A Thousand Razors', 'Omerta', and so on..) and of course, twenty separated 'solutions' are proposed as well. Unfortunately, the presentations are quite heterogeneous, ranking from very clever ones to real 'puzzles'.
As for the issues covered, the range is quite broad, including among others:
- Directory traversal attacks
- VPNs attacks
- Wireless attacks
- Buffer overflows
- E-mail sniffing
- Macintosh hacking
- DoS attacks
- Trojan codes
- Forensic analysis
Three or four cases can be easily solved, but some of the challenges are almost impossible to solve due to the weakness of the supplied clues.
At the bottom line, the book is well worth to be purchased. It is original (almost unique) and very useful in expert hands. Once the cases are solved, all the information makes sense, giving you twenty illustrative case studies.
Rating: 1
Summary: uhm..
Comment: 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.
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Title: Hacker's Challenge 2: Test Your Network Security & Forensic Skills by Mike Schiffman, Bill Pennington, David Pollino, Adam J. O'Donnell ISBN: 0072226307 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 18 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, Fourth Edition (Hacking Exposed) by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz ISBN: 0072227427 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Linux, Second Edition (Hacking Exposed) by Brian Hatch, James Lee ISBN: 0072225645 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 04 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition by Chris Prosise, Kevin Mandia, Matt Pepe ISBN: 007222696X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 17 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Anti-Hacker Tool Kit by Keith Jones, Mike Shema, Bradley Johnson ISBN: 0072222824 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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