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	• Hacking Exposed 5th Edition (Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions) Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, ... McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2005 - 692 pages average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I almost feel like a hacker!

This book was good, it gave some decent information and pretty much covered NetBios hacking. This book also gives you links and tips on how to hack and possibley not get caught. I learned some good Footprinting from this book, and I recommend it to a "newbie" or someone who is a script kiddie.

Heavy but effective

I wasn't quite sure what I was letting myself into with 'Hacking Exposed'. In fact, I'm not even sure why I bought it - curiosity, I suppose. Being reasonably computer literate, I expected to find stuff that I might quickly understand. Sadly for me, I guess I'm not as computer savvy as I thought since about 70% of the content went way over my head. That's not the book's fault, since it is well laid out, well thought out and well presented.

Maybe what got me in the end was the SUID shell... [tsuiami}$ echo "/bin/cp /bin/sh /tmp/.sh ; /bin/chmod 4755 / tmp/ .sh" /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/s99local (page 369)

Any/clues/anyone? I'm;well;lost!

Certainly, for anyone who's in touch with 'real' programming, at least 'Hacking' talks about security from an offensive angle. A full catalog of the weaponry that black-hat hackers use is laid out in its full gore.

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great humour

whatever you use its in here, its a bit short on wireless and xp (the latest ms os release when written) but it covers unix and microsoft.

it covers the theoretical as well as the known bugs. Asks important questions. The lession learned are patch - dont use microsoft, and configure it properly to begin with.

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A must-have...

For the security-minded professional, this book is a MUST HAVE... any security collection is simply not complete without this easy-to-use, well-written reference. Though typically not enough information for script-kiddies and the like, it's enough for the security engineer type to quickly and easily identify problems and come up with ways to fix them in their environments.

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Too shallow wireless section.

I bought this third edition, mostly because of the claims about covering wireless security area. Well, as it turned out, this 'coverage' includes just three lousy pages !!
The book is very like the second edition. No relevant changes are presented, and therefore several issues are now dated.
If you don't already own the second edition, then buy this new third edition, overall, it is a quite comprehensive and useful book. However, if you are looking for a serious wireless security treatment, then you should better try books like ' Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network' or alike.

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