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(More customer reviews)I've been in the information security field for most of my professional life, so I know what to expect from most hacking books - a lot of coverage of a variety of topics and not a ton of depth because there just isn't room. This book though is one of the worst I've seen. The treatment of it's topics are so basic it could have been written by the average teenage "hacker". The material is also hopelessly dated and full of holes. Buffer overflows, the single highest profile exploit of the last 15 years get only a single paragraph which provides a definition and nothing else. The only wireless protection scheme it talks about it WEP! WPA is much stronger, and all new wifi devices have been REQUIRED to support WPA since 2003. Where exactly has the author been since then? The web application section covers only 3 vulnerabilities, completely ignoring some of the most deadly ones like SQL injection, session management issues, authentication, cross-site request forgery, and unvalidated forwards and redirects, just to name a few.
If you are coming from a position of absolutely no knowledge of the field, this may be an okay primer. It will give you a basic level of understanding of the issues and the vocabulary to communicate, but it will certainly not live up to it's title and "teach you how to hack".
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The information given in this underground handbook will put you into a hacker's mindset and teach you all of the hacker's secret ways.The Hacker's Underground Handbook is for the people out there that wish to get into the the amazing field of hacking. It introduces you to many topics like programming, Linux, password cracking, network hacking, Windows hacking, wireless hacking, web hacking and malware. Each topic is introduced with an easy to follow, real-world example. The book is written in simple language and assumes the reader is a complete beginner.
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