Rating: 
Summary: uhm..
Review: 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 he goes into stupid crap like backdoors in inetd.conf, how outdated can you get..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.
Rating:
Summary: uhm..
Review: 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 he goes into stupid crap like backdoors in inetd.conf, how outdated can you get..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.
Rating: 
Summary: GENIUS!
Review: This book was insanely useful. I thought it was going to suck
badly.. but it turned out to be invaluable. The examples/scenerios along with the witty banter make this my #1
reccomendation for the ole add-to-cartIt was also very entertaining, I laughed until I stopped.
Rating: 
Summary: Read for fun, not for education
Review: This is an very fun and interesting book. The book is laid out as a set of 20 real world incidents and then the solutions to each of those incidents. Although not every incident is very interesting, they are written well and can be very entertaining. One thing that struck me about this book was the fine line it walked between education and entertainment. Honestly, many of the incidents described in this book are helpful to a security consultant. But for most people, the scenarios will seem very arcane. Therefore, I can really only reccomend it to people who are really into security issues. For the general public, this may seem very dull.
Rating:
Summary: 10+, A great read!
Review: This is everything your mom forget to tell you about hacking and more! The author does a wonderful job of setting up real world scenarios and brilliantly explains them. If you are l33t or are just interested in hacking, this is a must read! This is going to be a stocking stuffer in my family!
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