Stealing the Network

Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

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Stealing the Network is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to equipment and information, or deny use of those resources to the people who are meant to have access to them. The characters, though sometimes well described, are not the stars of these stories. That honor belongs to the tools that the black-hat hackers use in their attacks, and also to the defensive measures arrayed against them by the hapless sysadmins who, in this volume, always lose. Consider this book, with its plentiful detail, the answer to every pretty but functionally half-baked user interface ever shown in a feature film.

One can read this book for entertainment, though its writing falls well short of cyberpunk classics like Burning Chrome and Snow Crash. Its value is in its explicit references to current technologies--Cisco routers, OpenSSH, Windows 2000--and specific techniques for hacking them (the heroes and heroines of this book are always generous with command-history dumps). The specific detail may open your eyes to weaknesses in your own systems (or give you some ideas for, ahem, looking around on the network). Alternately, you can just enjoy the extra realism that the detail adds to these stories of packetized adventure. --David Wall

Slashdot.org, June 4, 2003
Stealing the Network is a refreshing change from more traditional computer books...

Product Details

Paperback: 330 pages
Publisher: Syngress; 1 edition (April 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1931836876
ISBN-13: 978-1931836876
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.5/5 based on 32 reviews.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #262,091 in Books