Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.39 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593270461 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-02 |
| Language | : | English, German |
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"Informative and Inspriing" according to Amazon Customer. If you really want to understand the possibilities of passive surveillance, just get this now. I passively also learned more about hacking than pretty much any other book. The style of writing is great for a technical book, starting with low level techniques and slowly building in information, humor, and prose toward some pretty creative ideas about the. "Zalewski deals in the minutia" according to K. H.. Silence on the Wire is not your typical security book detailing thelatest application exploits or generalized security trends and attackprevention. Zalewski deals in the minutia. If you were to constructa Bell Curve of security knowledge and concepts, you would need tochop out a large portion of this graph and simply include the upperthreshold, in which. "The best (most unique, most interesting) security book I've read, period." according to Solinym. I have an extensive library of computer security books, and this is by far the most interesting, most novel, most entertaining computer security book I own. I am actually going through each of the footnotes, reading every paper mentioned in the book. This books is not a textbook for system cracking or defending your system, like O'Reilly's Practical Uni
He is the author of Silence on the Wire (No Starch Press), Google's "Browser Security Handbook," and numerous important research papers.. He is credited with discovering hundreds of notable security vulnerabilities and frequently appears on lists of the most influential security experts. Michal Zalewski is an internationally recognized information security expert with a long track record of delivering cutting-edge research
The sys admin canapply this knowledge to network monitoring, policy enforcement, evidence analysis,IDS, honeypots, firewalls, and forensics.. Silence on the Wireuncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them,as well as better understand and monitor their systems. By taking an indepth look at modern computing, from hardwareon up, the book helps the system administrator to better understand security issues,and to approach networking from a new, more creative perspective. There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learnmore about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wire dissects several unique and fascinating security andprivacy problems associated with the technologies and protocols used in everydaycomputing, and shows how to use this knowledge to learn more about others or tobetter defend systems
-- Enterprise Systems, June 22, 2005 esj/Security/articlepx?EditorialsID=1426I was hooked I give this book a 7 out of 10 for an interesting read. -- TechIMO, June 3, 2005 techimo/articles/i249mlDo-it-yourself ethos pervades the book this broad mindset can uncover major security flaws — but not where you’d think. -- ;login:, October 2005Not only thinking outside the box, but twisting the box, shaking it, and finding a way to exploit it. -- IEEE Cipher, May 14, 2005 ieee-security/Cipher/BookReviews/2005/zalewski_by_bruenmlThis follows the story of a piece of information from the first key-press to the other end of the wire. -- Help Net Security, June 24, 2005An innovative twist on otherwise boring aspects of network security&helli