Hack Proofing Your Network (Second
Edition) by Ryan Permeh
Better Than The Rest!
A new edition the most popular Hack Proofing book around!
IT professionals who want to run secure networks, or build secure
software, need to know about the methods of hackers. The second edition
of the best seller Hack Proofing Your Network, teaches about those topics,
including:
· The Politics, Laws of Security, Classes of Attack, Methodology,
Diffing, Decrypting, Brute Force, Unexpected Input, Buffer Overrun,
Sniffing, Session Hijacking, Spoofing, Server Holes, Client Holes, Trojans
and Viruses, Reporting Security Problems, Choosing Secure Systems

The central idea of this book is that its better for you to find the holes in
your network than it is for someone else to find them, someone that would
use them against you. The complete, authoritative guide to protecting your
Windows 2000 Network.
Updated coverage of an international bestseller and series flagship
Covers more methods of attack and hacker secrets
Interest in topic continues to grow - network architects, engineers and
administrators continue to scramble for security books
Written by the former security manager for Sybase and an expert witness
in the Kevin Mitnick trials
· A great addition to the bestselling Hack Proofing... series
· Windows 2000 sales have surpassed those of Windows NT
· Critical topic. The security of an organizations data and
communications is crucial to its survival and these topics are notoriously
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Personal Review: Hack Proofing Your Network (Second Edition)
by Ryan Permeh
When I read the first edition of this book, was truly disappointed. I was
wondering how such people could have written such book. Not that the
book was worthless, but too 'standard' to met the expectations I had from
these guys.
Still the idea was very interesting (information directly from the real
experts), and I kept waiting for a new edition.
Well the second edition is now out, and not only fulfills, but exceeds all my
original expectations !!Let's take a look:The Approach:Understanding
attacks and vulnerabilities, by understanding 'how to hack' (good hacking
of course. . . .ahem )The Book:Rewritten, expanded and improved, the
book consists of 800+ pages well structured into 18 chapters (against 450+
pages and 15 chapters of the first edition).
Well written, well presented, with a real fancy table of contents, the
chapters include url's, a FAQ section and a SOLUTIONS FAST TRACK
one.

A lot of CLEVER code is included as well as helpful 'Tool & Traps' and
'Notes from the Underground. . . ' outlines.The new sections (all
outstanding) include:
- Hardware Hacking (otherwise only found in papers)
- Tunneling (excellent)
- IDS evasion (very easily explained)
- Format strings attacksThe Intended Audience:People willing to become
network security pros.Contents:- Introduction to Security, Attacks and
related Methodologies.
- Cryptography.
- Unexpected Input, Buffer Overflow, Format Strings.
- Sniffing, Hijacking and Spoofing.
- Tunneling, Hardware Hacking, Viruses (et al.).
- IDS Evasion.
- Automated Tools.
- Reporting Security Problems.The Bottom Line:It is not just a good book, it
is the best book among high level network security books, and the only
that compares with specialized papers. Only quite easier.
I got more than 60 papers on buffer overflows. None compares with the
classical 'Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit' by Aleph One. IMHO,
however, the corresponding chapter from this book, does compare and is
really easier to understand.
Finally, the 'piece de resistance' of the book, is the chapter about Spoofing.
Really enjoyed it, and by the way got surprised reading the innovative (to
me) technique to 'Spoof Connectivity Through Asymmetric Firewalls'. Good
Job Dan ;-)
As an added bonus, as an owner of this book, you'll find a lot of code files,
applications and links...
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