books about: hacker     books:       Hex13 reviews Rhiannon Lassiter Topeka Bindery, 2001 HEX is a book that you are cursed to enjoy. The most dangerous person in the 24th century is a 15-year-old girl named Raven --- and officially she doesn't even exist. Why? Raven is a Hex --- part human, part super computer. In the late 21st century, Hexes were created by genetically enhancing human children. Hexes can reach into the Net and access information systems from around the world. They can move around the World Wide Web the way ...             Hacker Proof (General Interest)8 reviews Kris Jamsa, Lars Klander Delmar Cengage Learning, 2002 HackerProof Very up to date book. Excellent reading (even though this is a text book for me~ Not boring text material). Great book             The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws10 reviews Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto Wiley, 2007 Everything You Need to Know This is the most important IT security title written in the past year or more. Why? Custom web applications offer more opportunities for exploitation than all of the publicized vulnerabilities your hear about combined. This book gives expert treatment to the subject. I found the writing to be very clear and concise in this 727 page volume. There is minimal fluff. While everything is ...             Honeypots: Tracking Hackers12 reviews Lance Spitzner Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002 great introduction and reference on honeypots Honeypots is an excellent introduction to the subject of honeypots, useful as a reference for experts as well as for beginners to the subject. It is written very clearly and provides step-by-step instructions with plenty of examples and screenshots. It covers commercial, open source, and do-it-yourself solutions, from very simple low-interaction detection honeypots to very high-interaction ...             The Costs of Bad Hiring Decisions & How to Avoid Them, Second Edition9 reviews Carol Hacker CRC, 1998 A good guide to avoiding bad hires Carol Hacker has done a service to those who are serious about weeding out the costly bad hires that are waiting out there to harm your organization. She makes excellent points and warns about the huge costs of making a mistake. Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of "How to Spot a Liar in a Job Interview" and "How to Spot a Phony Resume" docwifford@msn.com             Hacker's Delight14 reviews Henry S. Warren Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002 Absolute essential This book is an absolute essential to the right reader. That right reader is either a low-level coder, a high-level logic designer, or someone who builds tools and libraries for same. In other words, not a lot of people. This is hacking at its bit-level finest, though. If you're among those few, or think you might be, or want a good laugh at the people who are, dig in. It's good for things ...             Cold Eyes48 reviews Romina Wilcox Xlibris Corporation, 2007 What a great read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am by no means a professional writer, I just love to read. I got "Cold Eyes" a while ago and was finally able to read it. I read the book in one sitting because I simply could not put it down. Romina Wilcox has a way of taking you on a journey. It starts off slow and easy then goes all twisty-turney on you. The plot twists were wicked and fun and I enjoyed the novel very much. I found ...             Bedford Handbook18 reviews Diana Hacker St. Martin's Press, 1995 Hacker lite, but not light enough Diana Hacker has an English comp book for any possible usage, she grinds them out every few years. My college requires me to use this book as a handbook. That is unfortunate. Of course, this book provides a basic explanation of English composition, grammar, documentation, and document design and critical reading. However, the attempt in this case is to present something that is lighter than ...             Mission-Critical Security Planner: When Hackers Won't Take No for an Answer9 reviews Eric Greenberg John Wiley & Sons, 2003 Awesome high-level book It is very rarely, that you'd see a good high-level security book nowadays. There are lots of great "worm-eye view" books with nice detailed descriptions of attacks, defenses, secure configuration options, tools and tricks. However, many of the high-level books resolve to quoting some outdated CSI/FBI survey, blabbering about security policy and giving out piles of outworldly advice on how to ...             Computer Privacy Annoyances11 reviews Dan Tynan O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Required reading for today's computerized society... Privacy? Good luck! Even the slightest misstep on line (or anywhere else, for that matter) can open you up to privacy intrusions that you may not know about. Dan Tynan does a really good job in outlining these areas in Computer Privacy Annoyances. This is pretty much required reading for living in our heavily computerized society. Contents: Privacy At Risk; Privacy At Home; Privacy On The ...             Job Hunting in the 21st CenturyExploding the Myths, Exploring the Realities7 reviews Carol A. Hacker SLP, 1999 Good Read This book gets to the heart of what it takes to get the best job available. I was enouraged by the information offered to the reader. I don't read a lot because I don't like to read, but this book was recommended to me by my brother and I found it to be very valuable.             Defensive Hacking Self Study Guide5 reviews Naveed Anwar Security Associates Press, 2003 Good Self Study Guide - DVD is esp. useful For one (like me) who is fed-up with all the poor script kiddie hacking books on the market which teach nothing new...then I really recommend you try DefensiveHacking. This self study guide taken from Security Associates globally taught course goes beyond the repeated stuff books like Hacking Exposed talk about again and again...what Hacking Exposed talks about in 300 pages DefensiveHacking ...             Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker6 reviews Jonathan Lynn Salem House Pub, 1988 Perhaps the best media in which to appreciate the YPM series Like many tie-ins with British television shows,_YPM Diaries_ is a print version of the show, written in the voice of the characters. And , as is also the apparent British custom, it includes material previously aired. In fact, its chapters are the televised episodes themselves. But this book goes well beyond the scripts of the shows. It definitely recognizes the difference in the two media ...             A Bully Grows Up: Erik Meets the Wizard7 reviews Caryn Sabes Hacker Caryn Solutions, LLC, 2006 Watch Over Every Child! If you saw your child or any child in danger you would not hesitate to rush to there aid. Seeing a child struggling in the surf or swimming pool, falling from their bike in traffic, again there would be no hesitation. How can we be prepared for problems and dangers when they are not at our side. Bullying is one danger that is far reaching that we cannot iqnore. Lack of knowledge about the problem ...             The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey5 reviews Emmanuel Goldstein Wiley, 2008 Fifteen Years of Extreme Hacking on the Edge, Under-Priced! I am attending Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) in NYC this week-end, and have just spent time with this volume. Unlike the individual issues, all of which I have had in my possession over the years, this volume is HUGE, readable, indexed, and priceless. I mean that--PRICELESS. The publisher is to be saluted for not only putting a great deal of effort along with the editor, the founder of 2600 ...             Green Arrow: The Archer's Quest (Book 3)6 reviews Brad Meltzer, Phil Hester DC Comics, 2003 The Best Character-Driven Green Arrow Story Ever! Kevin Smith brought Oliver Queen back from the dead in "Quiver" and "Sounds of Violence". Brad Meltzer, in his first comic work to date, picks up the book where Smith left off and gives us the best character-driven Green Arrow story ever - a story that brings Ollie back to LIFE! The premise of the story is simple - Ollie and his long-time ward, Roy Harper (aka "Speedy" aka "Arsenal) goes on the ...             The Database Hacker's Handbook: Defending Database Servers7 reviews David Litchfield, Chris Anley, ... Wiley, 2005 Important Book For Database and Security Admins David Litchfield is arguably the foremost expert and evangelist when it comes to database security. He, and his team of compatriots from Next Generation Security Software, have written a book that any database or security administrator should be familiar with. Even if some of the attacks or exploits described in the book were previously obscure or unknown, the fact that they have been ...             Spam Wars: Our Last Best Chance to Defeat Spammers, Scammers & Hackers7 reviews Danny Goodman Select Books (NY), 2004 Tough Love For E-Mail Users There is one classic book that sits on my bookshelf and shows the wear and tear of repeated use and that book is the JavaScript Bible by Danny Goodman. So when I found that Goodman had written a book about the eternal struggle against spam and phishing scams, I really wanted to get my hands on a copy of Spam Wars: Our Last Best Chance to Defeat Spammers, Scammers, and Hackers (Select Books, 2004, ...             Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro(R) 3.07 reviews Tamar E. Granor, Ted Roche, ... Addison Wesley Longman, 1996 Fantastic reference for EXPERIENCED foxpro programers I learned alot from this book and I have been programing foxpro from the dark ages in 1991! These guys know their stuff. If you program foxpro for money you need this book.             She Says: Bilingual Edition8 reviews Venus Khoury-Ghata Graywolf Press, 2003 Reviewing what She Said Venus Khoury-Ghata is a master of words. She swims in language, dives in her alphabet soup, and splashes us until we drip. She Says is a compilation of poems that converse with each other, wink at each other. Each poem bursts as you read it, like bubble wrap, when you squeeze one of its tight bulbs. Before I started reading She Says, I skimmed the book, and was struck by the fact that the ...              search for books annoyances, application, bedford, bilingual, centuryexploding, computer, critical, database, decisions, defending, defensive, diaries, discovering, exploiting, exploring, hacking, handbook, honeypots, hunting, interest, minister, mission-critical, odyssey, planner, privacy, realities, scammers, security, spammers, tracking books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Life in the Jungle: Charly Blues Masterworks 4 leave a comment home  impressum - about us