The Bottom Line
- Stories keep your attention and draw you in
- Fictional stories provide tons of info about real-life security issues
- You may not sleep well after learning how blackhats can bypass your security
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Description
- Each chapter is written by a different author providing unique perspectives and styles
- Fictional short-story format keeps your attention while teaching you about hacking techniques
- Excellent supplement to more detailed hacker technique books to provide perspective to the info
- Demonstrates "real-life" use of hacker tools and techniques to illustrate their function
Guide Review - Book Review: Stealing The Network
A book like Stealing The Network: How To Own The Box gives some perspective to the tools. By taking real-life stories and fictionalizing them, the authors provide examples of how blackhats think and the tools they use, as well as what the whitehats can do to detect or prevent intrusions in a format that is engaging and entertaining while also being educational.
I recommend using a book such as Hacking Exposed or Counter Hack as well, but this book can help to bring life to the lessons from those books and show you how the knowledge from those books can be applied in real life.
Even if you don't use this in conjunction with a more detailed book of hacker techniques, this is an excellent book. The short-story format draws you in and makes it exceptionally easy to breeze through the book quickly. You may find yourself wondering when you're done just how secure your network is and what else you should be doing to prevent yourself from becoming a story in Stealing The Network 2.
