The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking

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Summary: Highly recommended for computer users everywhere
Review: Ankit Fadia's The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking is written for those curious as to how computer systems work and who abide by ethical guidelines, often searching out loopholes in system securities and then sending a note to system administrators warning them of the breech and what can be done to patch it. The valuable information in The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking is also meant for anyone responsible for data security in the ever-changing world of Internet and computers, and packed from cover to cover with tips, tricks, and techniques for protecting one's website or system from being maliciously brought down. Written for beginning to intermediate level programmers, individual chapters address how computer viruses work, the basics of Perl and C, types of hostile scripts and applications, password-related problems and much more. Highly recommended for computer users everywhere who have web pages other materials in need of basic cyber-protection, The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking is as "user friendly" as it is informative.

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Summary: Official guide to Unethical copy and paste (plagarism)
Review: How can anybody turn up pure garbage like this in the form of a book, and claim to be any sort of security expert. Just as the book, this guy is a sham. The only positive reviews on this site would be those doctored by the author himself.

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Summary: Script Kiddo !
Review: I think this is the worst book i would have ever read in security. I could tolerate the rest, but not this, which is why i was compelled to go online and write this review.

This book should have been sold to kiddos.. just like him.

I am a member of a foreign Cyber Crimes Division, and oh pleaze.. those material , it's Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V stuff !

And recently in those Hack2002, seminar,s in KL...i was there..and it clearly proves...this boy is a Script Kiddo.

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Summary: Script Kiddie Scratch Book
Review: I would certainly say that this is a case of a Script Kiddie trying to get smart and act as a White hat.

It is more of Ctrl C & Ctrl V with lots of editing to hide traces of where the original work has come out of.

Looks like the publishers done a favour by publishing this one.

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Summary: Wasted effort...
Review: It was too hyped in media when it came. The book doesn't offer anything of substance and I don't understand how can one boldly go about plagarizing...anyway it has become obsolete by now.
Might help newbies though.

You are definitely better off spending money on Hacking Exposed by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz or Anti-Hacker Tool Kit by Keith J. Jones, Mike Shema, Bradley C. Johnson

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Summary: Script Kiddies are Weenies !
Review: OH well, nice book for beginners but I would never recommend it to anyone except other 16 year olds.

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Summary: Intentions are irrelevant - unauthorized is still hacking
Review: The author wrote a book that tries to say that testing someone's defenses is a good idea and can help them.

What a load of bunk.

Suppose a reputable company gets a messsage saying "I just penetrated your defenses and looked at some info, you should fix this or that." That company now has to assume that everything is compromised and has to rebuild its systems to a known good, safe state. It simply cannot trust anyone who says "I broke in, but I didn't do any damage. You can trust me!".

The only good thing about this book is that it has no information that could be used to hack into anyone who has taken the most basic security steps.

This book is a waste of time, money, ink and paper.

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Summary: Official guide to waste your money!
Review: This book is a waste of your hard earned money, because if you need scripts that don't work and doesn't help you at all in hacking or protecting yourself from a cracker, you can just get millions of those from the Internet for free. You don't have to pay a 14 year old kid to compile it and give it to you for US$49!

I bought this book because it had a very interesting title. I regret my decision of buying this book as there is nothing in it that can be used and it's taking up the space in my bookshelf. Maybe, I will throw this book or give it to someone (some people those who never say no to free things).

You don't have to pay US$ 49 for a book that has nothing but freely available scripts copied and pasted from the Internet.

As rightly mentioned in one of the reviews here, it's a waste of money, ink, paper, and time. You will end up throwing this book in a bin with learning only one thing how to be a bit smarter before buying a book that has an interesting title.

WHAT A WASTE!

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Summary: Immature
Review: well its a good book for beginners(i mean ...who r just xploring the inners of windows) ...most of the techniques given can be found in tips and tricks corners of many websites..the only advantage is all these r collected and presented in one book..and so its a good collecor's edition