Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow (Stealing the Network) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Johnny Long (Author), Timothy Mullen (Author), Ryan Russell (Author)
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Product Description
The best-selling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet.

Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow is the final book in Syngress' ground breaking, best-selling, Stealing the Network series. As with previous title, How to Own a Shadow is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, highly detailed scenarios of computer intrusions and counter-strikes. In How to Own a Thief, Knuth, the master-mind, shadowy figure from previous books, is tracked across the world and the Web by cyber adversaries with skill to match his own. Readers will be amazed at how Knuth, Law Enforcement, and Organized crime twist and torque everything from game stations, printers and fax machines to service provider class switches and routers steal, deceive, and obfuscate. From physical security to open source information gathering, Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow will entertain and educate the reader on every page. The book's companion Web site will also provide special, behind-the-scenes details and hacks for the reader to join in the chase for Knuth.

· The final book in the Stealing the Network series will be a must read for the 50,000 readers worldwide of the first three titles

· The companion Web site to the book will provide challenging scenarios from the book to allow the reader to track down Knuth

· Law enforcement and security professionals will gain practical, technical knowledge for apprehending the most supplicated cyber-adversaries

About the Author
Johnny Long is a Christian by grace, a professional hacker by trade, a pirate by blood, a ninja in training, a security researcher and author. He can be found lurking at his website (http://johnny.ihackstuff.com). He is the founder of Hackers For Charity(http://ihackcharities.org), an organization that provides hackers with job experience while leveraging their skills for charities that need those skills.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Syngress (February 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1597490814
• ISBN-13: 978-1597490818
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #695,274 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars where is the shadow?, March 7, 2007

By	A S - See all my reviews

The book is written much better than the previous ones in terms of style, it actually looks like it was very well proofread and edited, but it really lacks in substance which the previous books were full of! So we are introduced to some reverse engineering techniques (rather superficially), nothing new, it was covered to a much better extent in How to Own the Box, the very first book. Lots of extra background, often unnecessary and very predictable. A long story on a little 'different' boy who grows up to get very excited by sql injections... A story that somehow manages to be a bit entertaining, if not for an abrupt ending that leaves you with a surprised and disappointing look on your face. That's it? So who exactly was stealing whose shadow?

That was not even talking about a terribly delayed release. I pre-ordered this book in May 2006 and they kept pushing the date at least 5 times. And after all this waiting I get a half baked sql injection tutorial and learn pretty much zero about Knuth and how his story would end. Are they in for another sequel? This is not Star Wars after all.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, February 14, 2007

By	J. Young - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Tries to hard to be an actual book. Security researchers should stick to what they're good at which I thought they did well in the other books in the series.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A serious dropping of the ball.... , January 26, 2007

By	R. Gavilan "Dreamone" (DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

While the other books in this series are all excellent and intelligently written, this book falls extremely short of being worthy of the "stealing the network " name.
the beginning of this book tracks the action of knuth's son and where he comes to be. this portion of the book is quite interesting and goes on for a decent amount of time..
however,
after this point everything takes a serious turn for the worse- the stories from this point on seemingly get more and more distant from any logical path stemming from the original books.. towards the end a story begins about a boy and how he grows up to be a hacker, while an interesting read, its overly long and has absolutely nothing to do with the main premise of the book, only at the end does he get connected in a small way with any of the books main characters, and at that its not even explained how it came to be.
after you have meandered through all this information about how he came to be a hacker and the path he took to learn everything it is tacked on at the end, as if pure afterthought a connection to the main storyline.

i cannot believe that some of the creators voluntarily published this, or perhaps the small amount of people who composed this book compared to the others alludes to the fact that it was never going to be a complete project. while a good " hacker " book in some small respect.. reading documents easily available on the net and putting a storyline to them after the fact.. is exactly the opposite of what i have come to expect from the stealing the network series.


- i read this book from a pdf i recieved from ordering directly thru syngress because amazon was severely late in showing it was published.

-english is not my first language.. please forgive ;)