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Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Sixth Edition |  | Authors: Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
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Edition: 6
Pages: 720
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ISBN: 0071613749
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.8
EAN: 9780071613743
Publication Date: January 5, 2009
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The world's bestselling computer security book--fully expanded and updated "Right now you hold in your hand one of the most successful security books ever written. Rather than being a sideline participant, leverage the valuable insights Hacking Exposed 6 provides to help yourself, your company, and your country fight cyber-crime." --From the Foreword by Dave DeWalt, President and CEO, McAfee, Inc. "For security to be successful in any company, you must ‘think evil' and be attuned to your ‘real risk'...Hacking Expose 6 defines both." --Patrick Heim, CISO, Kaiser Permanente "The definitive resource to understanding the hacking mindset and the defenses against it." --Vince Rossi, CEO & President, St. Bernard Software "Identity theft costs billions every year and unless you understand the threat, you will be destined to be a victim of it. Hacking Exposed 6 gives you the tools you need to prevent being a victim." --Bill Loesch, CTO, Guard ID Systems "This book is current, comprehensive, thoughtful, backed by experience, and appropriately free of vendor-bias-prized features for any security practitioner in need of information." --Kip Boyle, CISO, PEMCO Mutual Insurance Company "The Hacking Exposed series has become the definitive reference for security professionals from the moment it was first released, and the 6th edition maintains its place on my bookshelf," --Jeff Moss, Founder of the popular Black Hat Security Conference Meet the formidable demands of security in today's hyperconnected world with expert guidance from the world-renowned Hacking Exposed team. Following the time-tested "attack-countermeasure" philosophy, this 10th anniversary edition has been fully overhauled to cover the latest insidious weapons in the hacker's extensive arsenal. New and updated material: - New chapter on hacking hardware, including lock bumping, access card cloning, RFID hacks, USB U3 exploits, and Bluetooth device hijacking
- Updated Windows attacks and countermeasures, including new Vista and Server 2008 vulnerabilities and Metasploit exploits
- The latest UNIX Trojan and rootkit techniques and dangling pointer and input validation exploits
- New wireless and RFID security tools, including multilayered encryption and gateways
- All-new tracerouting and eavesdropping techniques used to target network hardware and Cisco devices
- Updated DoS, man-in-the-middle, DNS poisoning, and buffer overflow coverage
- VPN and VoIP exploits, including Google and TFTP tricks, SIP flooding, and IPsec hacking
- Fully updated chapters on hacking the Internet user, web hacking, and securing code
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 Very good book- very minor issues April 20, 2010
Alan Turing 2007 (California)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I very much like the hacking exposed series. It provides solid coverage of many topics ranging from scanning and enumeration to privilege escalation. If you are looking for an introduction to the hacking world this is it.
My complaint is that each new edition does not have nearly enough differences with previous editions. Frankly if you have version 5, you can skip six. I have learned to buy about every 2nd or 3rd edition.
 Hacking Exposed 6 April 15, 2010
Michael S. Bauer (WV USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
First off I can't say that the Hacking Exposed series wasn't a big part of my infosec education over the years. I read the first edition when I was in my first year of college in 1999. It was a very taboo book at the time and presented many new tools to me and opened up a new passion. With that said I find little value in the 6th edition of the book it's much the same as the first one with updated information.
This book is best read by people that know very little about how attacks work and want to discover how the average low level attacker goes about doing things. This book is not bad at all but it really just doesn't add anything to my arsenal or provide me with any new information that is valuable to me.
If you want a book that can give you a very entry level understanding of how attacks might take place and need a book to teach you the very basic's of how to become a script kiddy or how they operate then this book is a good choice.
I mean no disrespect by this but it is my opinion that true hacking or pen-testing does not and can not follow the old methodologies that are outlined in this book.
There is simply not an A to B route that is to be followed in hacking/pen-testing and tossing attacks from tool after tool at systems isn't the right way to go about testing.
In my opinion this book is the best choice for someone with a new interest in the subject and knows very little about security testing and defense. This is a good place to start to learn the very basic's of offensive infosec and to pick up some entry level knowledge on how to defend against it.
If you are looking for an introduction or a bridge to entry level certification such as certified ethical hacker or certified penetration tester this would be a good choice to pick up before you start your studies to fill in the gaps.
Overall this is a great book just take it for what it is. It is not a book on how to hack. It is an introduction to hacking and some of the common tactics that are used. If you're not defending against these then you're doing a poor job.
To be fair to the author and the series this book was a pioneer in the industry at the time it was introduced there was little information on the subject to be found in this type of structure. In our infosec crazed world of today so many books follow this exact format that reading it becomes dry and very boring.
Overall great series pioneers of information security books but a new approach is needed and maybe that is present in the hacking exposed series but I can not comment on that because I have only read scattered editions of the original title.
 6Th Edition, why? June 19, 2009
Viken Derderian (Los Angeles, CA)
37 out of 44 found this review helpful
My first exposure with hacking series was back in 2002 the 2nd edition, in the Foreword of the 2nd edition they summed up the expectation and identified the who should read this book "...But if a computer network has a security vulnerability and no one knows about it, is it insecure?".
In writing this review I like to bring to attention the fact that I am not sure who is the intended audience anymore.
I have seen this book on every network engineer's and self proclaimed security guru's book shelf, many of the one's I have seen were not even used once.
So my question is why do people keep on buying this book, is it the title? The marketing? Or is it a cult think? I was given the 6th edition as a gift. I read most of it out of curiosity, and after a while I realized that this book does not have a true audience.
This book is not written for;
.-The hacker since many of the hacking techniques are either irrelevant or old and most hackers know a better way.
.-The criminal. See previous note.
.-An auditor. If it was, it would have specific processes on how to conduct and audit.
.-Management, they don't care how hping2 works.
.-Those who are concerned about wireless security. There is a "hacking exposed for wireless" book for them.
If we take away the fat, this book has about 200 pages of useful information, most of which can be found using the authors favorite search engine Google
why did I give it a 2 star instead of just 1, I did like the entire 10th Chapter, this section has very relevant information, and it has a purpose, it introduces the concept of governance and use of standards such as ISO17799 which is actually ISO27001:2005 and NIST Publications 800-64 and 800-27. It explains the SDLC although the author calls it SDL combining the Life with Cycle. So if this is your First Hacking Exposed book, buy it with caution, but if you already have one, don't "upgrade".
Best Fishes and thank you for reading.
Too Basic June 17, 2009
Christina Ooi (USA)
3 out of 8 found this review helpful
A basic overview of attacks. This book lacks sample code but I suppose it would be OK for someone that just wanted to lightly touch upon different cyber attacks worked. In all honesty, I'd stick to wikipedia.
 Never Received Shipment June 6, 2009
Ahmad Austin
0 out of 36 found this review helpful
It has been 6 weeks and I have yet to receive my book from this vendor. I wouldn't trust them.
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