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Summary: Hack Counter-Hack for beginning security
Review: This is an excellent tool to help you get started on network security. Skoudis gives excellent short lectures on many topics. Some reviewers don't like this program because they already know what he describes and demonstrates. This is for beginners! You can take a class at a community college or get this training course. I bet you will get your friends right away and show them the demonstration of using ... software to gain information about web sites. The software is on the disk or free on the Internet. If you want to start learning security fast, get this course and his Counter Hack book.
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Summary: Excellent*... *But You Gneed to Gnow Linux!
Review: This training course is excellent for those who take the time to do everything in this book from cover to cover...lesson by lesson...if you do not know linux you may get into trouble when compiling certain required modules only to find out that there were compilation errors suggesting missing symbolic links and or missing libraries e.g. GTK which then have to be downloaded and installed...too much time was spent on the elementary and not enough on the advanced...overall excellent.
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Summary: Talking head video but good info
Review: With quite a bit of experience in networking and security, I bought this on something of a lark. just to see how it was done and what was presented. I would call it a security *survey* class. It assumes a certain base of knowledge with both Windows and Linux which is fine. The information when presented is clear enough but not quite enough detail for someone with good working knowledge already. But, even with my level of knowledge, I found a few new things to learn. The nice thing about this type of presentation is it's a great way to get you off your butt and actually try of the utilities. In my case, I also fired up my sniffer and got some nice trace files of various attacks, scans and other nasties. It's a controlled way to do this, the files are clean and you dont worry about something hidden being inside the file which can be the case just downloading this stuff from the web.I really disliked having to install RealAudio back on my system just to play the files, I would have liked to see a choice between Windows Media, RealAudio and QuickTime (my personal choice). The supplemental material is very weak. It is just a hardcopy of the slides used in the videos. I had expected more detailed notes on the hardcopy. But for the price, it's a deal for the newbie security minded administrator or for someone wanting to learn about some tools used for both good and nefarious reasons. Beats shelling out 1-2K for a 1 day seminar for the same info.
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