- Paperback: 960 pages
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; illustrated edition edition (20 April 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 047141624X
- ISBN-13: 978-0471416241
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 19 x 6.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,285,906 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The path to pro hackerdom is Hack Attacks Revealed, but be warned, the mark of a real hacker is serious technical expertise. Author, John Chirillo, starts with the internal details of IP, TCP, ethernet packets and the care and feeding of subnets even network sysadmins don't need to know but which anyone aiming to spoof a connection or fingerprint the hidden details of a network can't live without.
For the first third of Hack Attacks Revealed you might be forgiven for thinking you're training as a network design engineer. Even network cable types are covered. Then it gets complicated. Real hackers are real programmers. There's most of a C programming course built into the book, and you need it--and preferably Perl as well--to understand the wide range of included listings.
Much of the book is straightforward lists: port assignments, packet structures, handshaking protocols and other low level network engineering detail. Only by understanding can you hope to subvert systems--prevent others usurping them. To help there's a CD full of hacker utilities used to create and check for holes in your own security, though the demo TigerTools suite is too crippled to be useful. The lists of hardware (routers, switches), software and operating system vulnerabilities covered is awesome. The fact that fixes for most of them are available but often unimplemented is depressing.
You'll laugh, you'll cry but you'll keep reading. As a commentary on a clearly immature technology Hack Attacks Revealed is fascinating. As a wake-up call to sysadmins everywhere it should be compulsory reading. --Steve Patient
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"Hack Attacks Revealed completely blows the other security books out of the water. It was the book I was looking for when I bought all the others!"
(Kelly M. Larsen , C2Protect, DoD Security Instructor)
"Speaking for the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team, these books vastly facilitate our operations involving intrusion detection, incident response, and vulnerability assessment of Air Force automated information systems."
(L. Peterson, AFCERT)
"[Hack Attacks Denied] is quite extensive in providing the information that the users may need to prevent hack attacks." (HiTech Review)
"Whoever "you" are––sysadmin, internetworking engineer, or hacker (disaffected or otherwise), you′ll find that Chirillo is selling authentic goods." (Bill Camarda, Slashdot)
(Kelly M. Larsen , C2Protect, DoD Security Instructor)
"Speaking for the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team, these books vastly facilitate our operations involving intrusion detection, incident response, and vulnerability assessment of Air Force automated information systems."
(L. Peterson, AFCERT)
"[Hack Attacks Denied] is quite extensive in providing the information that the users may need to prevent hack attacks." (HiTech Review)
"Whoever "you" are––sysadmin, internetworking engineer, or hacker (disaffected or otherwise), you′ll find that Chirillo is selling authentic goods." (Bill Camarda, Slashdot)
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! It's packed with stuff which just isn't relevant, for example, there are 100 pages of a simple "C" programming guide. Another large section is basically a DOS 3 command line guide, which the author reveals he produced while working for the underground hacking community, but looks to me like a re-hashed MS-DOS user guide. There's a ton of stuff on TCP/IP, all of which (and more) is available in other more authoritive publications. The lists of ports is incomplete, and descriptions of cable types is just a waste of space. There's a large section on different operating systems, most of which is just history. The CD supplied (TigerBox etc) is the one saving grace (otherwise zero stars), and the chapter which describes these tools is worth having, but I daresay it's all available on the net in any case or the on-line help (I haven't looked). However, the number of pages taken up with showing you how to install Tiger is just staggering, with screen shots showing the "Next" button and a caption telling you to press it, occupying far too much space, and isn't this at odds with a subject which is supposed to be technically challenging? When the author strays into the real subject, there are just glib comments like "hack the SMTP gateway" but there's no detail or juicy stuff. Oh, and the listings... pages and pages, for example, source code for a TSR... well haven't things moved on just a little?
All in all, a complete waste of money and shelf space. My advice is buy "Hacking Exposed". Oh, and by the way, the version of TigerTools isn't even the full version.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Mr. Chirillo shows in Hack Attacks Revealed that in a world rendered seamless by computers, the opportunities for megacrime are vast. Read these books and tremble. Or do the things he urges to be prepared in Hack Attacks Denied. The best defense against theft of information is, in a digital sense, to keep one's mouth shut and systems secure. Enough said. Buy these books.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is just amazing. It takes you from the basics of explaning the address alocations to high level atacks like spoofing. It does describe procedures and it does tell you "why" not only "how". Author analyses a large number of holes, gives a very good lessons in programming.A very good collection of tools is also included with a book. I'm sure, those who can distinguish top level books, will apreciate this one, those who thinks that online tutorials, reading of news groups etc. can educate them better will change their minds. To be short, it is a must for anyone, who is interested in information security.
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