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Network Security: A Hacker's Perspective

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I am going to throw my two cents in! I agree with Ashely M (From Australia) that the initial three reviews are written by Ankit Fadia. They all have written only one review so far in Amazon.com and gave 5 stars.

I have read Fadia's book before, and being an IT analyst, I can tell you that whatever he writes is crap and does not have any practical knowledge. It's very easy to write a book like that, because all you have to do is spend couple of months on Google, copy information from website, and paste it on your Word processor, edit it, and give it to publisher. However, the only hard work Fadia's does is choosing a good title for a book.

This book is as bad as his earlier book. Don't buy and waste your $50 on this crap, instead donate it to Greenpeace or CRY.

As said by one of the reviewers, I have to give one star as that is the least.

once again another script kiddie tutorial book by mr fadia by this time it plagarised material off the rfc's.so how secure is your network really with expert advice from 17 yr ol script kiddie hacker aka author of this book.i say ur networks are in trouble.ankit fadia couldnt save his website from gettin hacked and d'dosed by other script kiddie hack3rz like him.i see this kidz making a lot of money these days ,stupid media hpye about this kid being the next kevin mitnick give me a break,me n my crew just cant stop laughing at this faggot.n if u really wanna be a cetified script kiddie hacker take the afceh(ankit fadia certified ethical hacvker ) certfication lmfao.ull leran all hxor stuff bout trojan hacking n user friendly winnuke hacking and maybe ddos by the one and only ankit fatia..so people once dun waste ya time or even da money buyin this faggotz book,ur gonna waste ya money n end up wid nothin new,system adminstratorz pick up hacking proofing ya network second edition by ryan russell if u really wanna secure ya network.if uve read all my reviews n are thinking about supporting this media hapyed lamer n script kiddie goa head ,but remember i wrned u not 2
newayz peace 2 da real
oh by the way i was thinking bout the ankit fadia certfied ethical hacking program (lmao/ any suggestions)

I'm not sure what's up with all the great previous reviews. My guess is the writers of those reviews aren't extremely knowledgable in network security.

This book is riddled with inaccuracies, ranging from completely and absolutely wrong statements to misleading information. I never got through more than 5 pages without finding another instance of misleading or incorrect information.

The author's age - 17 years old - most definitely shows. He comes off as more of a "script kiddie" than anything. He obviously doesn't have the in-depth security, networking, and systems knowledge that a true security expert with a number of years of real world experience would have.

On the positive side, it does have some good information, but not valuable nor significant enough to make up for the amount of bad info.

I'd look elsewhere - this is definitely not a book I'd recommend.

This book does a better job explaining hacking techniques than it does explaining network security in general. That is, if you're interested in learning how to do some hacking, or how to protect yourself from some basic attacks, this book may be worth your while. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you have previous knowledge of, or another source for information on, the principles of network security and secure computing. You might get some wrong ideas.

In particular, the background material on how the Internet works, and on how it is managed, is spotty. For example, the author introduces and uses 'classful' IP addresses, though classless routing has been on the books for a decade. CIDR makes the interpretation of IP addresses a little more complicated than the book would lead you believe. Also from the what's-new department, the author refers to RFC 1700 as the authoritative source on port numbers, though for years (9?) an online database has been the place to find out about well-known port numbers. See RFC 3232. The section on associating geographic location with an IP number is rather optimistic. A good reviewer would have caught these and other problems.

All my gripes aside, the book has a good deal of information on specific exploits, and that is its greatest strength. The book doesn't purport to be a more than a guide to "help you step into the minds of computer criminals," but it should have been submitted to an experienced technical reviewer. A good editing & reviewing job would have helped challenge the author to make this a more valuable book.

Well, I never read the book but what all reviews are true. Ankit Fadia is nothing but a charlatan. He claims to be a hacker but can't write or read code, never found a bug and maybe had never exploited a system in his whole life.
I was reading a commentary by a guy in India who saw a presentation by Mr. Ankit and he said Fadia didn't show up anything new or valuable on it -- he showed how easy is to break into a computer using NetBus (haha!) and lots of outdated crap.

Looking at the latest review I saw the phrase "The only difficulty in reading this book is that the C code cannot be easily understood by newbies." Yeah man, and it's even more difficult to Fadia because he can't code a single line of code.

HAHAHA!

The only reason I am posting about this book is that I was looking around for some CCIE book prices and somehow *uhg* stumbled across this...thing (Ankit Fadia)

I swear the last three guys are him, just trying to give himself a good name. I say that only because they all have only reviewed his book. (I know I have, but I'll start reviewing more now.)

I have only read what Amazon.com has allowed me to read of his books via the "Inside This Book" feature.

THIS BOOK AND HIS LAST BOOK ARE COMPLEATE LLAMA MATERIAL! I'd recommend this book to maybe a year 8 who has very little pervious knowledge of hacking and computer security and just wants to have a read around.

FFS~ I'm serious. Even check out his over book "The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking" LOLZ!1...He wasted a good 700+ pages of paper. Maybe when he grows up he will understand the mistake he has made.


Okay I had some really good point to make but have forgot now.

Anywho DONT BUY THIS!!! heh~ Kudo's to him because he did try, and he is young. Rair enough maybe a year 8 would like this title, but no.

Quoted - "Tell a system administrator about vulnerability in his system and he will surely start respecting you. And besides thanking you, he might even give you permission to break into his system. Wow! Isn't that what all hackers dream of?"... Mate god help you if you do that. You WILL end up in all sorts of troubles. Eg, JAIL YOU FAG.

Respectively,
Ashley M.

My friend showed me this book in the Teksons bookstore, it was so bad i wouldnt have bought it for free. In fact,now i think i should buy it ..as it will help me to sleep better :-)
Now i know why it is important for authors to be older ..i mean i respect age now ! The one star i am giving it is because there is no option of 0 stars in it !

This was a required book for one of my digital security classes. It's very basic and talks about typical tools such as tracert and ping. If you've been around a network for very long, skip this book and move to something more advanced.

I am from Singapore and am a Chief Technical Officer of a security firm. I had attended Ankit Fadia's seminar in Kuala Lumpur in October 2002 and had ordered a book there itself. I received the book in November (the Indian edition) and have loved it. One gets to learn something new on every single page of the book. After reading the book I have even submitted a proposal for using the book for inhouse training of my employees. It is an excellent guide to hacker profiling and has been very useful for me in my job front. It acts as an excellent reference book when I am studying the log files on my clients' networks for tracing down inrusion attempts.

I strongly recommend this book to all security professionals.

Whenever there is going to be a new book from ankit fadia there are a lot of expectations.Surely this book has lived upto the expectations of the readers. Morever in this book the encryption and file security part could have been elaborated. The only difficulty in reading this book is that the C code cannot be easily understood by newbies.Overall it's a fantastic job by ankit fadia and hats off to him.