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The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking

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This book starts with using Windows 98. 4 versions of windows have been released since then it also has crappy exploits that are outdated and do not work. dont waste your money.

Aside from any moral qualms about the legitimacy of such a book (of which I remain neutral) this is clearly not written by an 'authority' on this subject, so any serious hacker would find it no more dangerous than halitosis in a gas station.

Lots of waffle and posturing. Not convinced he actually understands the more advanced 'code' snippets he introduces (e.g. he manages to confuse a c 'header' with a 'library', also why would any serious security hacker write a keylogger in pascal!!!? Many parts are REALLY badly explained and have basic errors for a 2nd edition (see p356 - the first Xor table has a basic error in third row). Several bits of the text look suspiciously familiar (i.e. possibly cut and pasted from unacknowledge sources, which might explain the inconsistencies).

I gave two (generous) consolation stars because (a) the breadth is to be commended (at least he tried), and (b) the fact that you can still pick things up interesting snippets from this book; so long as you suspend the urge to yell WRONG! at it, and (c) Contrary to the previous reviewer who gave it 5 stars (a 'friend' no doubt) this book states on the last page that it is aimed at 'beginners'.

Unimpressed...

I am more than upset with the author of this book. All the material can be found easily by searching the Internet and by doing a search at www.microsoft.com. The zip files that are mentioned in the book are corrupted. Not only that but when I reported the problem to the author, I got nothing from him -- that was almost a year ago, I am not sure about the files as of Oct 1, 2008.

I don't recommend this book -- well, I do. If you have a fireplace and you are out of wood. Other than that, save your money and search for other more serious books online.

Outdated and unoriginal material coupled with a poor writing style make this book a waste of time for anyone serious about studying computer security and hacking. Ankit Fadia is a joke. Do not waste your time or money!

Great Book. I read 2600 and similar. Im not a serious hacker but love to
know the cracks. More armchair than doing . Lot of good stuff in this book.
Started reading in Borders then bought on Amazon for better price.

This is a book on how to hack into computer systems to teach you more about how to protect yourself from hackers. This is a lot like the military uses schools like Top Gun to teach warriors how the expected opposition fights.

The book covers virtually every aspect of how a computer works down at a low level in the software. It starts off with a discussion on the registry. It goes on from there to the network, the e-mail server, the web, and common approaches to hacking such as 'buffer overflow.' He then goes on to discuss the common virus programs and how to combat them.

Hacks into systems are generally based on bugs in the code. Generally accepted guidelines say that there are 5 to 50 bugs per thousand lines of code. Windows XP has approximately 40 million lines of code -- That says somewhere between 200,000 and 2,000,000 bugs in XP alone.

This book will teach you what hackers are doing, the legal aspects, the damage done and most important how to avoid your own systems getting maliciously hacked. It is not intended for the beginner - when you're reverse engineering binary files or investigating what's happening with the stack your're pretty deep into what's happening in the system.

This is the most complete, most detailed book I've seen on hacking.

As an IT professional, I was looking for comprehensive reading to strenghten my network security knowledge. This book fulfilled that goal well. I am very pleased at the value obtained. I would surely recommend this material to those interested. It appears easy enough of a read for a beginner, but even as a seasoned vet I found it very useful.

As an IT professional, I was looking for comprehensive reading to strengthen my network security knowledge. This book fulfilled that goal well. I am very pleased at the value obtained. I would surely recommend this material to those interested. It appears easy enough of a read for a beginner, but even as a seasoned vet I found it very useful.