The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking (Paperback)

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"Ethical hacking" may seem like an oxymoron, but to 17-year-old Indian high school student Fadia, it's a way of life. This book extends his Hacking Truths site (hackingtruths.box.sk), describing hackers as computer experts who do break into systems but refrain from causing damage. From password cracking to finding hacking utilities online, the ideas here will help intermediate to advanced readers protect their own systems and resolve situations ranging from lost passwords to viruses. While the writing is somewhat awkward, Fadia's voice and perspective shine through. Recommended for larger libraries.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking is much more than a guide to hacking. For anyone interested in finding out how your fail-safe system was cracked and how you can better protect yourself, this book is a must-read. It contains helpful resources that you can reference to better protect your system from becoming the victim of attacks. It also includes discussion on the nature of file encryption, firewalls, and viruses and shows how users can make their systems more secure.

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Most helpful customer reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage, Oct 27 2002 By A Customer If you are a beginner and know how to use a search engine such as google, then you will get all the information in this book for free from the Net (I bet thats what the author did as well). I have been working in Security for over 9 years and I don't understand what is so special about this book - more like garbage to me. Check out Ryan Russell's - Hack Proofing Your Network - 2nd Editon and Mike Shiffeman's new - Building Open Source Network Security tools. These are worth spending $$. Was this review helpful to you?   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 1.0 out of 5 stars Pure junk.., Oct 25 2002 By A Customer Funny how people can get away with this kind of garbage. The 5* reviews must have been written by the author himself. Waste of money. Was this review helpful to you?   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: 1.0 out of 5 stars Did you ever heard about copyrights ?, Oct 21 2002 By  "salym" (France) - See all my reviews Whereas I'm a security auditor now, I started first as a Blackhat. This book is everything but valuable information. He cut'n'past some garbage tutorials written by [...] hackers, then he mixed them into the form of a ... well... let's say a ... book. If you want to spend time and money, if you want to learn everything but what hacking is and how a blackat think, just read this book. You'll find most of the content of this book in his website. Just make a Google search and discover yourself how he just pladgied... Hope this helps. Was this review helpful to you? Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review › See all 43 customer reviews...		Most recent customer reviews 1.0 out of 5 stars The WORST security book ever written The book just reveals that the author know the use of "Ctrl+c" and "Ctrl+v". All the registry tricks explained in the book are ditto copy of some docs which are freely... Read more Published 20 months ago by anoopprabhu 1.0 out of 5 stars Official guide to waste your money! This book is a waste of your hard earned money, because if you need scripts that don't work and doesn't help you at all in hacking or protecting yourself from a cracker, you can... Read more Published on April 26 2004 by A. Chopra 1.0 out of 5 stars Official guide to Unethical copy and paste (plagarism) How can anybody turn up pure garbage like this in the form of a book, and claim to be any sort of security expert. Just as the book, this guy is a sham. Read more Published on Mar 24 2004 by N. Kiran 1.0 out of 5 stars Intentions are irrelevant - unauthorized is still hacking The author wrote a book that tries to say that testing someone's defenses is a good idea and can help them. What a load of bunk. Read more Published on Feb 24 2004 by Stephen Kalman 2.0 out of 5 stars Script Kiddies are Weenies ! OH well, nice book for beginners but I would never recommend it to anyone except other 16 year olds. Published on Nov 24 2003 by Sahil Jain 1.0 out of 5 stars Immature This book has far too many mistakes. For example, on page 44 (in the "Advanced Windows Hacking" section!) it says, "Win.ini and system. Read more Published on Oct 1 2003 2.0 out of 5 stars A good book with wrong title well its a good book for beginners(i mean ...who r just xploring the inners of windows) ...most of the techniques given can be found in tips and tricks corners of many... Read more Published on Aug 20 2003 by maverick 2.0 out of 5 stars Wasted effort... It was too hyped in media when it came. The book doesn't offer anything of substance and I don't understand how can one boldly go about plagarizing... Read more Published on May 25 2003 by Rupesh Verma 1.0 out of 5 stars Script Kiddo ! I think this is the worst book i would have ever read in security. I could tolerate the rest, but not this, which is why i was compelled to go online and write this review... Read more Published on April 25 2003 by Sauron 1.0 out of 5 stars Script Kiddie Scratch Book I would certainly say that this is a case of a Script Kiddie trying to get smart and act as a White hat. Read more Published on April 1 2003 by netfilter Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews › See all 43 customer reviews...

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