Expert Knowledge On Hacking Techniques

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	• Hack Attacks Revealed: A Complete Reference for UNIX, Windows, and Linux with Custom Security Toolkit, Second ... John Chirillo Wiley, 2002 - 960 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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Expert Knowledge On Hacking Techniques

John Chirillo has made a career of hacking. As a hacking consultant to Fortune 1000 companies part of his job is to break in to corporate networks to expose their holes and help his clients secure their networks. In Hack Attacks Revealed, he shares his knowledge of how hackers gain the information necessary to break into your systems.

The book begins with a basic history and understanding of computer and networking technology. Mr. Chirillo covers the the protocols used and the purpose of the various ports used. The book also provides information on the scanning and network discovery tools used by hackers.

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Reluctant law abider

I was relieved to read that this isn't considered a very useful reference on How to Hack. Certainly Ch. seems at his most enthusiastic, frothiest, even foamiest, in talking about the wonderful world of hacking. Yeah, he repeatedly trots out the line about having to know how to attack to know how to defend, time after time, but ya' gotta' wonder where his heart lies (Okay, even Milton had this problem.)

And that certainly is irksome if you, like me, are one of the growing number of people who have reluctantly become 'security amateurs,' and find ourselves reading 900+ page books, due to invasion of our privacy by amateur criminals. Whatever its merits for security professionals, this is probably not the book for you. It assumes too much technical background and doesn't provide sufficient detail on implementing various solutions. True, this may be covered in more detail in his other book, but including that we're talking 1800 pages...

Editing would have helped, certainly. The 75 basic hack attacks are a useful overview on just how paranoid you should be, but the basic information about some of them is repeated up to 4 times, sometimes as boilerplate.

I have seen a few books more suitable for amateurs, but the truth is that they aren't detailed enough to be helpful. I think that the only real solution to the security problem in the IT industry is to wake up to the fact that caveat emptor, 'professional ethics,' and self-regulation isn't working any better there than in health and safety, restaurant sanitation, the stock market or...well, you work it out. As long as it is only sort of illegal to break into someone's house as long as you use a computer, most geeks will do it.

The ISPs aren't taking this seriously because they know people aren't much more likely to stop using e-mail than to stop using the phone, and most companiues were only kidding when they said they were interested in your problems.

Once there are some laws with real teeth and real fines and real jail time, those who aspire to the appearance of respectability will go back to their regularly scheduled activities including tale bearing, beating the old lady, bothering the women (men) at work just enough to stay on the right side of the law, bitching about how the old lady (old man) doesn't want to screw, kicking the dog, pulling the wings off flies, and complaining how much better everything was in the good old days.

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The much-anticipated second edition of the bestselling book that details network security through the hacker's eye
Since the first edition of Hack Attacks Revealed was published, many new attacks have been made on all operating systems, including UNIX, Windows XP, Mac OS, and Linux, and on firewalls, proxies, and gateways. Security expert John Chirillo is ready to tackle these attacks with you again. He has packed the Second Edition of his all-in-one reference with forty percent new material.
In this fascinating new edition, you'll discover:
* The hacker's perspective on security holes in UNIX, Linux, and Windows networks
* Over 170 new vulnerabilities and exploits
* Advanced discovery techniques
* A crash course in C for compiling hacker tools and vulnerability scanners
* The top seventy-five hack attacks for UNIX and Windows
* Malicious code coverage of Myparty, Goner, Sircam, BadTrans, Nimda, Code Red I/II, and many more
* TigerSuite Professional 3.5 (full suite single license)

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