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Hack Attacks Encyclopedia: A Complete History of Hacks, Cracks, Phreaks and Spies Over Time
 
 

Hack Attacks Encyclopedia: A Complete History of Hacks, Cracks, Phreaks and Spies Over Time (Paperback)

by John Chirillo (Author) "frames, locked away in temperature-controlled, glassed-in lairs. It cost megabucks to run those slow-moving hunks of metal, so even their programmers had limited access to..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 960 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (4 Sep 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471055891
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471055891
  • Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 18.7 x 5.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,105,771 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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" The author has amassed an enormous amount of material and it is supplemented by a bound–in CD–ROM in each book". (Software World, May 2002)

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A complete library of the hottest, never–before–published underground hack variations
In his highly provocative books, Hack Attacks Revealed (0–471–41624–X) and Hack Attacks Denied (0–471–41625–8), corporate hack master John Chirillo described the tools, techniques, and primary code that hackers use to exploit network security loopholes and then shows specific methods for blocking these attacks. However, now that so many of their standard techniques have been revealed, underground hackers and cyberpunks are again skirting the system, going beyond primary code, and resorting to using complex code variations of old techniques. That′s where this book breaks new ground––by providing, for the first time, the most comprehensive compendium of all the complex variations of these techniques, both historical and current, that the hacking underground doesn′t want you to see. It offers astounding details on just about every tool used by those who break into corporate networks––information that will go a long way toward helping you close any remaining security gaps. An ideal companion volume to the other "Hack Attacks" books, Hack Attacks Complete:
o Covers hacks from the 1970s all the way to new millennium hacks
o Details every permutation, variation, and category of hacking tools
o Categorizes hacks for easy reference, with such categories as hacking, cracking, phreaking, spying, anarchy and underground spite, and hack/phreak technical library

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3.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting but not all that useful, 14 Jul 2004
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This contains more that's of interest to someone who wants to understand the history and culture of hacking than to the would-be hacker/cracker or security professional.
The book begins with the almost obligatory explanation of the original meaning of the word 'hacker' as someone who is able to produce elegant or faster-running (or both) solutions to programming problems along with the accompanying explanations of the differences between hackers, crackers and phreakers. It goes on to give an interesting historical synopsis from the 1950's to the present listing significant events which are relevant to the subject, or, in the author's opinion, likely to be of interest to someone reading a history of hacking.

Following on from this it's split into chronologically ordered sections covering hacking and cracking. Each section really just lists the files for the equivalent directory on the CD and gives a short summary of the file's origins and contents and details of where to look on CD-ROM. It's interesting (in places) but there isn't a great deal in the early sections that is of any practical use. The later sections do include some interesting stuff relating to more modern Windows and UNIX systems.

Among the appendices is a glossary of over 200 pages which provides a guide to terminology used in this field. It provides a dictionary of hacking with plenty of information provided and is useful both as a general reference and for explanations of some of the less well known terms which crop up in the main text.

The main problem is that the book is hundreds of pages long, but other than the introduction and history of hacker culture at the beginning and the glossary at the end, the entire thing is filled with snippets and excerpts from the CD. It's interesting as an illustration of some aspects of hacker culture and the evolution of hacking and cracking, but probably a bit overpriced.

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