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Title: Anti-Hacker Tool Kit by Keith Jones, Mike Shema, Bradley Johnson ISBN: 0-07-222282-4 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: OK as reference
Comment: While reviewing the second edition of the AntiHacker Toolkit, I managed to keep my general disdain towards tool books (see my review for a first edition) in check. Thus, I managed to find the book more valuable than the first edition.
I liked that the authors framed the book as being "about tools" and not "about security". The book will not teach you security concepts, but rather what the current tools are and (to some extent) how to use them.
The book offers coverage of Windows and UNIX, attack and defense (and investigation) tools. As the authors state, it does indeed make a good companion for "Incident Response" by providing a bit more details on the tools. Reading up on the methodologies before starting on the tools is a good idea.
I also liked that they highlighted the changes and new material added for the second edition. However, if the book offers to cover a laundry list of tools, some omissions look pretty suspicious. Where is Bastille in "Host Hardening"? Where is "scanrand" in scanners? Some tools (such as Nessus and Snort as well as commercial scanners) would have justified a bit more details (due to their relative complexity and diverse functionality).
The book will make a valuable addition to a library of a security professional. Although most or even all of the information there is available online after some googling, having it in one place is not a bad idea.
Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D., GCIA, GCIH is a Senior Security Analyst with a major security information management company. He is the author of the book "Security Warrior" (O'Reilly, 2004). His areas of infosec expertise include intrusion detection, UNIX security, forensics, honeypots, etc. In his spare time, he maintains his security portal info-secure.org
Rating: 3
Summary: Hmmmm.
Comment: Does it concern anyone else that every prior review was written with third-grade English?
I haven't actually read the book, though it seems to be a re-hash of every other security/hacking/cracking book on the shelf. In fact, virtually every "hacking" book on the shelf at Borders and B&N seems to recount the same basic tenets, and yet... still more emerge.
I guess I need to write my own book, eh?
Rating: 4
Summary: Not for the beginner
Comment: This book has helped me out a great deal in understanding how hackers do what they do. Now I more aware of what I can do to prevent being hacked, or is crackd?
This book is not for beginnners in the aspect that alot of it is command line programs, however, it is easy to understand how it works.
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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: Windows 2000 (Hacking Exposed) by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure ISBN: 0072192623 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 29 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses by Ed Skoudis ISBN: 0130332739 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 23 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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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: Snort 2.0 Intrusion Detection by Brian Caswell, Jay Beale, James C. Foster, Jeremy Faircloth ISBN: 1931836744 Publisher: Syngress Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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