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Security Power Tools |
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Great security book! |
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2008-06-06 13:26:12 |
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Jason
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I think this book should have been titled more along the lines of "Network Attack and Defense", but that doesn't detract from its contents. This is a great network-focused coverage of some of the things that the bad guys will do to get into your network and, to some extent, what you can do about it. I particularly enjoyed chapters five and eight on wireless recon and penetration, which have great coverage on how to set up various wireless tools on Linux (which can be a daunting task for the uninitiated), as well as chapter eighteen on network sniffing (Practical Packet Analysis makes a good followup to this chapter). The last chapter also tacks on a bit on binary reverse engineering, which seems like an afterthought in the context of the rest of the book, but is still a good read. Overall, another great security book from O'Reilly! |
"Here in a single volume is a veritable think-tank of state-of-the-art security techniques addressing the needs of the most popular computer platforms: Linux, Mac, Unix, and Windows. It is a real eye-opener to the vulnerabilities of
computer networks and is therefore a must-have book for network administrators."
--Michael Kleper, The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing
