Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions

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Summary: Good Book
Review: This is a good book for anyone who wants to learn more about network security and hacking in general. The author provides likes to a substantial amount of downloadable resources from the web. Although some of the sites are no longer in existance, there are a substantial amount of the tools discussed in the book on the internet that are free for a short period.

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Summary: About time someone knew what they were writing about
Review: I've read about 4 security books and this book was far better than the rest. Instead of simply telling you not to run a certain service cuz it might have a hole, it actually tells you what the hole is, how to exploit it, and where to get the tools you need to exploit it. This isn't a list of programs and their holes though, it starts at the begining teaching you how to enumarate (get info) from a computer from all kinds of different methods, such as trying to find out OSs, their versions, services that are running and who is currently on the system. It talks about scanning groups of computers to find the few that are exploitable. It then goes on to explain specific Windows9X holes, then NT, to Novell, and then to Unix. Spending upto 60 pages on each operating system (very in depth and all of it usefull). There are also chapters just on dialup and VPNs (virtual private networks), firewalls, network hardware (routers) and an entire chapter just about DoS's (Denial of Services). It then goes into Advance Techniques, problems with PHP and ASP, and then onto a chapter on Windows2000 (talk about being up to date). As far as my book collection goes, this definetly gets my Top5 rating of the 100+ books I've read. Theres alot of meat to eat in this book.