Just read on Patrick’s weblog his article about good and interesting books to read. And that gave me the idea to write something about the book I am currently reading. It is a book that was given to me by a colleague at work…
Before I even say a word about the book, I won’t tell again that most hackers are honest people who just have deep interest in certain processes and that most care a lot about important matters as privacy. I also won’t tell that it is just small group of hackers who want to do damage to systems and who misuse their deep going knowledge for their own benefit…. script-kiddies, crackers and such. I neither won’t tell that media gave hackers a bad name because they had no idea what they were talking about….
Darn, now I just did what I said that I wouldn’t do 🙂
Anyway… to the book. The book describes a number of attacks on systems. Every thing about the attack is added…. the what, where and how… the logs… everything. And all is written in a very enjoyable way of writing.
The task of the reader is to determine where things really went wrong. What could have been done to block to the attack…. or even better, what should have been done to prevent the attack in the first place.
As said the book is written is a very nice way… A pleasure to read.
A number of the scenarios described in the book were not unknown to me. Some times I could put a finger directly on the weak spot(s). With some I was very close to the solutions and other times I overlooked something completely….
As said, a nice book to read. Even when it is already some years old, I learned from it. A book that I would recommend to people with interest on the subject.
On the other side it is kinda sad to see, that things that are already known for many years are so often these days not cared of…. Really sad.
Sounds like a cool book.
My Motto about hacking: As long as there are users, there is no way to secure anything. Technical hacking is cool. But Social Hacking is so much more effective……….