October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
12h 11m
English
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About the Author
Andrew Lockhart is originally from South Carolina but currently resides in northern Colorado, where he spends his time trying to learn the black art of auditing disassembled binaries and trying to keep from freezing to death. He holds a BS in computer science from Colorado State University and has done security consulting for small businesses in the area. When he’s not writing books, he’s a senior security analyst with Network Chemistry, a leading provider of wireless security solutions. Andrew is also a member of the Wireless Vulnerabilities and Exploits project’s (http://www.wirelessve.org) editorial board and regularly contributes to their wireless security column at NetworkWorld (http://www.networkworld.com/topics/wireless-security.html). In his free time, he works on Snort-Wireless (http://snort-wireless.org), a project intended to add wireless intrusion detection to the popular open source IDS Snort.
Contributors
The following people contributed hacks, writing, and inspiration to this book:
Oktay Altunergil is the founder of The Free Linux CD Project (
http://www.freelinuxcd.org) and one of the maintainers of Turk-PHP.com (a Turkish PHP portal). He also works full-time as a Unix system administrator and PHP programmer.Michael D. (Mick) Bauer (
http://mick.wiremonkeys.org) writes Linux Journal’s “Paranoid Penguin” security column. By day, he works to keep strangers out of banks’ computer networks.Schuyler Erle (
http://nocat.net) is a Free Software developer ...
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