Product Description

Network Security: A Hacker’s Perspective will help you step into the minds of computer criminals so you can predict their moves and stop them before they can strike. You’ll become a real hacker profiler as you find out the ways in which these attackers can infiltrate your system, including stealing your identity by obtaining your IP address; gathering information through port scanning, fingerprinting, and sniffing; and attacking password files. Whether you are a network administrator or recreational user of the Internet, you will learn the right countermeasures to protect sensitive information and ensure that neither you nor your company ever become a defenseless target.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1619802 in Books
• Published on: 2002-12-18
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Review
The book is rich on short descriptions, and long code examples, giving it an extra layer for those want it. -- zwanderer, Neworder Co-Admin and Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Black Box’ E-zine

This is an ambitious and detailed guide to important concepts and practical considerations in the field of computer security -- Jennifer Stisa Granick, Esq. (Lecturer in Law and Litigation Director, Center for Internet and Society , Stanford Law School and Director, The Honeypot Research Project)

About the Author
Ankit Fadia's Web site, "Hacking Truths," was created for a small circle of friends to whom Ankit would send out periodic hacking manuals. Today, it gets about 100,000 hits per day and his mailing list contains between 60,000-70,000 addresses. Ankit has written many tutorials on hacking and articles for several computer magazines and Web sites. He is the author of "The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking" (1931841721) from Premier Press and is co-author of "Tips and Tricks about Linux."

Customer Reviews

Ooops..Ankit Fadia did it again!
I am going to throw my two cents in! I agree with Ashely M (From Australia) that the initial three reviews are written by Ankit Fadia. They all have written only one review so far in Amazon.com and gave 5 stars.

I have read Fadia's book before, and being an IT analyst, I can tell you that whatever he writes is crap and does not have any practical knowledge. It's very easy to write a book like that, because all you have to do is spend couple of months on Google, copy information from website, and paste it on your Word processor, edit it, and give it to publisher. However, the only hard work Fadia's does is choosing a good title for a book.

This book is as bad as his earlier book. Don't buy and waste your $50 on this crap, instead donate it to Greenpeace or CRY.

As said by one of the reviewers, I have to give one star as that is the least.

books terrible already thrown in it $#$44 thrash
once again another script kiddie tutorial book by mr fadia by this time it plagarised material off the rfc's.so how secure is your network really with expert advice from 17 yr ol script kiddie hacker aka author of this book.i say ur networks are in trouble.ankit fadia couldnt save his website from gettin hacked and d'dosed by other script kiddie hack3rz like him.i see this kidz making a lot of money these days ,stupid media hpye about this kid being the next kevin mitnick give me a break,me n my crew just cant stop laughing at this faggot.n if u really wanna be a cetified script kiddie hacker take the afceh(ankit fadia certified ethical hacvker ) certfication lmfao.ull leran all hxor stuff bout trojan hacking n user friendly winnuke hacking and maybe ddos by the one and only ankit fatia..so people once dun waste ya time or even da money buyin this faggotz book,ur gonna waste ya money n end up wid nothin new,system adminstratorz pick up hacking proofing ya network second edition by ryan russell if u really wanna secure ya network.if uve read all my reviews n are thinking about supporting this media hapyed lamer n script kiddie goa head ,but remember i wrned u not 2
newayz peace 2 da real
oh by the way i was thinking bout the ankit fadia certfied ethical hacking program (lmao/ any suggestions)

Good on hacking tactics, not so great on background
This book does a better job explaining hacking techniques than it does explaining network security in general. That is, if you're interested in learning how to do some hacking, or how to protect yourself from some basic attacks, this book may be worth your while. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you have previous knowledge of, or another source for information on, the principles of network security and secure computing. You might get some wrong ideas.

In particular, the background material on how the Internet works, and on how it is managed, is spotty. For example, the author introduces and uses 'classful' IP addresses, though classless routing has been on the books for a decade. CIDR makes the interpretation of IP addresses a little more complicated than the book would lead you believe. Also from the what's-new department, the author refers to RFC 1700 as the authoritative source on port numbers, though for years (9?) an online database has been the place to find out about well-known port numbers. See RFC 3232. The section on associating geographic location with an IP number is rather optimistic. A good reviewer would have caught these and other problems.

All my gripes aside, the book has a good deal of information on specific exploits, and that is its greatest strength. The book doesn't purport to be a more than a guide to "help you step into the minds of computer criminals," but it should have been submitted to an experienced technical reviewer. A good editing & reviewing job would have helped challenge the author to make this a more valuable book.