Stealing The Network »

"If you want to hack into someone else's network, the week between Christmas and New Year's Day is the best time. I love that time of year" (from Chapter 1, "Hide and Sneak"). Written by a team of network security professionals, this volume contains a series of fictional short stories demonstrating the techniques commonly used by criminal hackers. The appendix provides an overview of the "Laws of Security" and discusses ways to mitigate many of the attacks detailed in the book. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Stealing the Network is a refreshing change from more traditional computer books. The authors have created fictional stories based on non-fictional concepts that could really happen to our computer systems today. The realistic fiction approach makes the book much lighter to read and actually entertaining. I also believe this approach makes the true methods behind the fictional stores much more memorable then memorizing thousand page textbooks.

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Stealing The Network: How to Own the Box, a compendium of tales written by well-known hackers, is a perfect summer read. The stories are fictional. The technology and techniques described are very real At 328 pages, Stealing the Network is a summer blockbuster without the nonsense that packs the pages of most warm-weather reads. It's entertaining, but it won't leave your brain gagging on an overdose of fluff.

Chapter 1: Hide and Sneak--Ido Dubrawsky

Chapter 2: BabelNet--Dan Kaminsky

Chapter 3: The Worm Turns--Ryan Russell and Tim Mullen

Chapter 4: Just Another Day at the Office--Joe Grand

Chapter 5: h3X's Adventures in Networkland--FX

Chapter 6: The Thief No One Saw--Paul Craig

Chapter 7: Flying the Friendly Skies--Joe Grand

Chapter 8: dis-card--Mark Burnett

Chapter 9: Social (In)Security--Ken Pfeil

Chapter 10: The Art of Tracking--Mark Burnett

Appendix: The Laws of Security