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By Andrew Lockhart
October 2006
Pages: 478
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-52763-2 |
ISBN 13: 9780596527631
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This second edition of Network Security Hacks offers 125 concise and practical hacks, including more information for Windows administrators, hacks for wireless networking (such as setting up a captive portal and securing against rogue hotspots), and techniques to ensure privacy and anonymity, including ways to evade network traffic analysis, encrypt email and files, and protect against phishing attacks. System administrators looking for reliable answers will also find concise examples of applied encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending, and incident response.
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This second edition of Network Security Hacks offers 125 concise and practical hacks, including more information for Windows administrators, hacks for wireless networking (such as setting up a captive portal and securing against rogue hotspots), and techniques to ensure privacy and anonymity, including ways to evade network traffic analysis, encrypt email and files, and protect against phishing attacks. System administrators looking for reliable answers will also find concise examples of applied encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending and incident response.
In fact, this "roll up your sleeves and get busy" security book features updated tips, tricks & techniques across the board to ensure that it provides the most current information for all of the major server software packages. These hacks are quick, clever, and devilishly effective.
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Network Security Hacks 2nd edition, April 08 2007
Title: Network Security Hacks
Subtitle: Tips & Tools for Protecting Your Privacy
Second Edition: October 2006
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-52763-2
ISBN 13: 9780596527631
Pages: 478
By Andrew Lockhart
The book starts with credits, then a preface before 12 chapters and an index. There were 14 contributors including the author according to the credits. The preface states there are 123 hacks in this edition. There were no errors that I found except for one minor one in the preface. Look at the thermometers that indicate the complexity of the hack on page xix. Does it look like the beginner and moderate icons are the same? No big deal, they are different in the text next to the actual hacks.
I do not worry too much about errors until they make me feel like the author[s] may not really be expert in the area they are writing about but all these hacks look good to me.
The book is balanced and starts with two chapters about Unix Host Security and Windows Host Security. They are both extremely well written and have very useful hacks.
This book is light reading. I read it in three days, just a couple of hours a day. The style is light and easy to enjoy. The flow of the style makes it hard to believe that multiple authors are involved in the writing. It seems like one person wrote it.
I liked the following chapters quite a bit:
Chapter 6 Network Security
Chapter 7 Wireless Security
The best chapters were hard to determine, all the chapters were excellent. Here are three that I thought were best:
Chapter 9 Monitoring and Trending
Chapter 11 Network Intrusion Detection
Chapter 12 Recovery and Response
Chapters 11 and 12 were the very best in the book, depending on whether you were more interested in detecting intruders or responding to them.
This book is worth 5 stars and every penny charged for it, taking everything into account. This book will pay for itself over and over. The first time I realized that the book would pay for itself right away was
40. Use the web with fewer passwords: Pwdhash and Remote PwdHash
41. Encrypt your email with Thunderbird
I also liked the sources of the hacks: Stanford and Harvard were cited. I thought this was good work academically and both security centers are heavy hitters with lots of quality talent writing software.
Well done.
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"Of course security is a moving target as crackers find ways to beat any particular security measures. That's where this book comes in with information for someone with a reasonable level of knowledge of network security to build on that knowledge and beef up the security of their network by implementing specific security features...an extremely useful addition to the bookshelf in any company's security department."
-- Stephen Chapman, Felgall.com
"This valuable addition to networking resources is practical, technically detailed, and addresses real-world needs. "
-- Major Keary, Linux Users of Victoria Inc.
"If you run a UNIX system and network, this book enumerates many useful tasks, settings, and tools that will help to make your systems and network more secure."
-- Robert Slade, Victoria Telecommunity Net
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