Hack Attacks Denied: A Complete Guide to Network Lockdown [With CDROM]

You just have to get this book after hacking the he@@ out of your network servers and home computers. The book contains not only the solutions but tools to track down and counter the bad guys.

This informal, step-by-step book will give you the tools and techniques to defend your network assets-and you don't even have to be expereinced. The book covers both *nix and Windows platforms, all routers and firewalls presenting descriptions of each countermeasure.

Revealed is a very informative book. It's full of submissions from numerous hackers which boosts both its insight and readability. Despite the book's title as 'hackers' are 'attackers', instead the hackers come across as intelligent, funny, computer-obsessed experimenters who can't resist a challenge. This book is the second part to Hack Attacks Revealed, over 500 pages, whose value is in the patches for all the security holes illustrated in the first book. The CD is loaded with compiled programs for securing systems, building firewalling devices, and secure browsing, telnet, ftp, chat, and mail. Again, there are extensive walkthroughs which makes it unique in this category.

hack attacks revealed is best of the breed. i recommend to everyone who has ever asked 'how to hack'. be sure to read every page. this will save you time and effort wasted with search engines. hack attacks denied falls along the same line as revealed, but i recommend with reservation as denied really follows revealed closely. don't buy this book first as you can get lost in some fortifying steps. you need to refer to revealed during much of the text. they are a great set.

This information is the icing on the cake...a logical follow up to Revealed for those times when you read Revealed and asked yourself:"Damn...ok...so what the hell else can I do to stop this?!?"Another great book by Chirillo with realistic methodical approaches to locking things down and keeping them locked (most likely in your environment...not some fantasy lab where users are passive and understanding). The book has detailed examples on every topic and links for when even this great resource starts to loose it luster...although I see it remaining useful for much longer than the average ivory tower fear mongering "information security" pot boiler.Should this information been included in Revealed...maybe...but Revealed is thick enough as it is (not a bad thing.) A box set of the two really isn't a bad idea...particularly if it was sweetened with a full Tiger Suite 2.0 or both books on pdf.