Hacker's Challenge : Test Your Incident Response Skills Using 20 Scenarios | 
 enlarge | Creator: Mike Schiffman
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 493174
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0072193840
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
UPC: 783254038264
EAN: 9780072193848
ASIN: 0072193840
Publication Date: October 18, 2001
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Amazon.com Review
Mike Schiffman has hit upon a great formula for Hacker's Challenge. Rather than try to research, fully understand, and adequately explain attacks that have taken place on other people's networks--the approach taken by too many writers of books about computer security--Schiffman lets network administrators and security experts tell their stories first-hand. This is good. What's better is that Schiffman has edited each of their war stories into two sections: one that presents the observations the sysadmin or security consultant made at the time of the attack, and another (in a separate part of the book) that ties the clues together and explains exactly what was going on. The challenge in the title is for you to figure out what the bad guys were doing--and how best to stop them--before looking at the printed solution. Let's call this book what it is: an Encyclopedia Brown book for people with an interest in network security. It doesn't really matter, from a value-for-money standpoint, whether your skills are up to the challenge or not. The accounts of intrusions--these are no-kidding, real-life attacks that you can probably learn from, by the way--are written like chapters from a novel (though log file listings, network diagrams, and performance graphs appear alongside the narrative text). Recall every time you've seen a movie or read a book with computer scenes so technically inaccurate they made you wish for a writer with a clue. Schiffman and Hacker's Challenge is what you wished for. --David Wall Topics covered: The sorts of attacks that black-hat hackers (everyone from script kiddies to accomplished baddies) launch against Internet-linked computers and networks. Everything is presented from the perspective of the defenders--i.e., the network administrators--who have to look at log files and process activity to figure out what's going on.
Product Description
Find out if you have what it takes to keep the bad guys out of your network. This real-world resource contains 20+ hacking challenges for you to solve. Plus, you'll get in-depth solutions for each, all written by experienced security consultants.
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 Hacker's Challenge January 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Complicated. Misleading. Not at all what I expected! Over-priced and very rudimentary. Not worth the hard earned dollars that I shelled out for the book.
 Challenging! August 16, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Hacker's Challenge is a must have for every computer forensics. The scenarious given are indeed technically challenging and I like the fact that the complexity of attack, prevention, and mitigation are already specified. It is also very helpful as it make references to external resources that contain more info about a particular specified vulnerabilities. The log files, network maps, etch are very helpful in making a forensic analysis. I look forward to getting the new version. Cold Eyes
 Good, but scenarios getting out of date February 23, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Challenge/Solution style of these books are great for security beginners as well as seasoned professionals. If you read carefully you can pick up many hints/tools which you can use in real life security scenarios.
My only -ve comment about this book is its getting out of date now. Many of the incidents described are not relevant now, as security practices at most firms would thrawt these incidents. Having said that, the scenarios are still good for security beginners. For advanced readers I would suggest the Second edition or the soon to be released third edition.
 uhm.. October 8, 2003
10 out of 15 found this review helpful
this book sucks. plain and simple. i have some respect for the author, i've used his libnet and he's a funny guy.. but this book is garbage. the last good thing mike schiffman wrote was libnet, and after that he figured why not just take it easy and write dumb books like this for the rest of his life, be a manager @stake and get paid way more than the researchers who are doing the actual work. he goes into stupid crap like backdoors in inetd.conf, how outdated can you get.. what is this? incident response to that crappy phrack article he wrote years and years ago about simple unix backdoors? hah. the real challenge here is for a real hacker to read the whole book and maintain his sanity.
GOOD Book July 23, 2003
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read many books about network security, but none had put it so easy to actually test the knowledge gain from my reading.
I would recommend this book to any tech guy entrusted with the security of any network of any site. This is the complement book for hacker exposed
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