By Andrew Lockhart
First Edition
April 2004
Pages: 316
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00643-8 |
ISBN 13: 9780596006433
(Average of 4 Customer Reviews)
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This information-packed book provides more than 100 quick, practical, and clever things to do to help make your Linux, UNIX, or Windows networks more secure. Loaded with concise but powerful examples of applied encryption, intrusion detection, logging, trending, and incident response, Network Security Hacks demonstrates effective methods for defending your servers and networks from a variety of devious and subtle attacks.
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Book details
First Edition: April 2004
Series:
Hacks
ISBN: 0-596-00643-8
Pages: 316
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 4 Reviews)
Featured customer reviews
Honeyd, May 09 2005
Well i've had the book for 2 week's now and i've had lots of fun with 2 chapter's " #94 - Simulate a Network of Vulnerable Hosts and #95 - Record Honeypot Activity, Waching hacker's sniffing around my multi-server honeypot network think themselves clever and having nothing better to do is so "hehehe" ...
Excellent Book, September 08 2004
This book took me a long time to read, but for a good reason, I kept implementing
the various hacks in the book on a server I had started setting up.
The book is mostly Unix related, but there is some Windows related ‘hacks’ as well.
I think the Windows coverage was lacking a bit though. For Unix, it talks about
Linux, the BSD’s and a bit on Mac OS X and Solaris. Most of the topics are
general enough to apply to any Unix based Operating System, but some are specific
to an operating system.
One of the great things about the Hacks series of books by O’Reilly is that the
information is presented in nice small chunks that you can read in a few minutes
if you have some spare time.
The hacks are all ‘hyperlinked’ to each other, if a hack mentions something that
relates to another hack, it is highlighted in blue and the hack that it
references is listed. I did find a few places where this wasn’t done
(#84 Real-Time Monitoring, first mentions Barnyard but doesn’t provide any
information on it or mention that it is one of the later hacks).
Lots of the hacks in the book could be found by doing some reading on the
internet, but finding such a variety of topics all in one place, with enough
information to get you started is really nice. Even though I consider myself to
be fairly security conscious, I still found quite a few things in this book that
I hadn’t thought of, or plain didn’t realize were possible or even existed. I
would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in security or anyone
responsible for maintaining a server (whether or not it is on the internet).
A definite addition security/administration references, August 18 2004
I previously read the Linux Server Hacks (which is an excellent book) and following up with this book was an easy. Although some of the hacks overlap with the Linux Server Hacks, they definitely belong to both books. I particularly liked sections on ACL, systrace (hack ##4, #15, #16) and also the fact that an entire chapter was dedicated to logging which is very important in case of an intrusion/attack. Overall, 5/5 to this book.
Network Security Hacks Review, March 25 2004
<center> I learning security class, i'm use is book . </center>
Very Good, tis book beatiull
Media reviews
"Unlike many others, Lockhart's book is comprehensive; covering tips for UNIX, Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. Because no system or network is impenetrable, meaning every system can be compromised, Lockhart offers a critical approach to minimizing the impact of a security breach. From hardening a server, applied encryption, trending and logging to intrusion detection and incident response, Andrew Lockhart's Network Security Hacks is an excellent resource."
--Alex Weeks, "Linux Journal," January 2005
"This isn't a sit-down-and-read-the-theory kind of book. It also assumes that you, as the network admin or engineer, have a pretty good understanding of UNIX and Windows, as well as network infrastructure. It this fits you, then you'll find Network Security Hacks refreshing. Chapter One starts with UNIX security and from there all the way to the index, it's just one hack after another...If you run a multi-platform environment (and what IT manager doesn't these days?), you'll find this to be handy volume to apply against your network."
--Jim Huddle, KickstartNews.com, October 2004
http://www.kickstartnews.com/reviews/books/network_security_hacks.html
"I was pleasantly surprised to see that the author took time to present some lesser-known but very useful tips...This is a great complement to the other titles in O'Reillys Hacks series."
--Computerworld, August 2004
"If you've always wanted to use 'grsecurity' or 'systrace,' but thought they were too complicated - grab the book and give it a shot. If you want to set up a fancy encrypted tunnel between two networks, it covers that too...Overall, 'Network Security Hacks' is a great book...'Network Security Hacks' will be useful for people involved with system and network management, those starting up in the security field, as well as for more advanced professionals (as a way to check their knowledge and skills). Also, it helps folks to jump straight to effective ways of doing things in the areas where their skills are less developed." Rating: 8/10
--Anton Chuvakin, Slashdot, July
http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/07/08/2041200.shtml?tid=126&tid=172&tid=188&tid=192&tid=95
"Every sysadmin should have a copy on their bookshelf."
--Netsurfer Digest, Vol. 10:21, May 2004
"If you're at all responsible for or mindful of the security aspects of your network, here's a book you'll enjoy...you will find plenty of gems that will give you a real and quick payback...Very good book, and worthy to hold a spot on your bookshelf."
--Thomas "Duffbert" Duff, Portland Domino/Notes User Group, May 2004
"A worthy addition to the bookshelf of network and security administrators. By following the exploits and processes outlined, you'll be able to sleep well knowing that you've covered as many bases as you can."
--Thomas Duff, Portland Domino/ Notes User Group, May 2004
"...this information-packed little book provides 100 quick, practical, and clever things to do to help make your Linux, UNIX, or Windows networks more secure today. Using just one of these amazing hacks will make this slim book's price seem like a remarkable deal. The other 99 make Network Security Hacks absolutely invaluable."
--Dale Farris, Golden Triangle PC Club, May 2004
