Book recommendation: Hacking Exposed, Second Edition

[Larkfellow]

I just wanted to give my praise for Hacking Exposed, Second Edition, by: Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, and George Kurtz (Published by Osborne, a division of McGraw-Hill).
This book as a lot of information on how hackers will try to infiltrate you system, what kind of tools they'll use, and difference counter messures you can take to stop them. It's good for home users, Or businesses. I know now that the only way to stop a hacker, is more or less to be a hacker. The book also has a homepage at www.hackingexposed.com (http://www.hackingexposed.com) Where they have links to download all the tools mentioned in the book (both defensive tools, and "offensive" tools used by hackers). A great book. Well worth the investment.

[AWebDesign]

Hey,

I wasn't to impressed with the book. It seems like to me it focused more on teaching people to crack systems. It was like "here's the tools, and here's how to do it" I think that Maximum Linux Security was a much better book.

Aaron

[nanode]

(Script Kiddies Exposed)

Is it just me, or is all this mainstream "hacker culture" stuff getting boring?

From what I've read and heard, security books mostly offer philosphy, whereas the technical implementation is a moving target. Exploits are discovered daily http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

[Larkfellow]

Originally posted by AWebDesign:
Hey,

I wasn't to impressed with the book. It seems like to me it focused more on teaching people to crack systems. It was like "here's the tools, and here's how to do it" I think that Maximum Linux Security was a much better book.

Aaron

While I haven't seen the book Maximum Linux Security, I found that Hackering Exposed was good just for that reason. If you know how a hacker gets into your system, then you have a better idea of how to stop them. The "Here the problem, now here's a solution" approch makes sense to me. While books based on, as nanode calls it "philosphy" don't give you much to work with. Especially if you're not familiar with all the tools you have available to you.