Still solid but redundant and a bit tired | Hacking Exposed 5th Edition (Hacking Exposed: Network Security...

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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

Good overall security reference

I recently received my copy of HE5 and despite some shortcomings (i.e. strong material removed from HE4) this book is a great overall security reference. The wireless stuff was a much needed component and although the book targets the latest O/S releases it's got a lot of useful discovery/fingerprinting techniques, including searching the web for sensitive info. Recommended.

Still solid but redundant and a bit tired

I cannot say anything more that other positive reviews have not already said.

Simply put, the Hacking Exposed series is THE source. However, it is getting tired and repetitive. Many topics covered in earlier chapters gets repeated AD NAUSEUM in later chapters.

Also, I feel this particular book is getting bloated at 750 pages. Hacking is a diverse subject. This book tries to narrow things down, but not enough in my opinion. The authors spread themselves too thin in some areas...thus adding to the page count unnecessarily. To their credit (and I love them dearly for this) they did not take chunks of old material and cut and paste like some other authors do! These guys keep the fresh material coming.

My 3 stars would have been 4 or 5 stars if I had seen really great improvements over the previous edition.

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I had to purchase this book for college but it is a great read. One of the only textbooks that I have used that was actually interesting. They give clear examples and make it easy to follow thier explanations. Great book if you want to learn about hacking and some of the issues it involves.

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An essential book for Linux admins

I read this book cover to cover and bookmarked half the pages with tips I want to use. It's not just a book on preventing hacks...it's full of great productivity tips as well. Nowadays, I rarely buy computer books because all the info is on the internet. But this book is an exception. The internet can't substitute for the education you'll get by walking through this one page at a time.

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Good, but aging

The book is not bad, but needs serious rewriting. The "fifth edition" is a joke-it looks more like an attempt to beat some more money out of the book's reputation than a serious release.

Some parts of the book are dated and should be left out or rewritten. Half of the URLs mentioned in the book does not work, because the websites have died a long time ago. Some nmap switches described in the text are not usable anymore, because the authors used an old version of nmap. A good deal of the text speaks about Windows NT, which is an OS almost unused today. There is a lot of typos in the book, which is quite unusal for a fifth edition. The HE website lists corrections for the first issue of the book, which is not very useful.

That said, I have learned a lot of interesting things from the book. It's a good book if you are trying to get the big picture-if you are looking for in-depth explanations and fresh information, I think you'd better look elsewhere. It's worth reading, I just wouldn't say it's a computer security Bible.

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