The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking (Miscellaneous) | 
|  | | | Title: | The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking (Miscellaneous) | | Author: | Ankit Fadia | | Publisher: | Course Technology PTR | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 02 February, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1931841721 / 9781931841726 | | List Price: | $49.99 | | You Save: | $35.67 | | Amazon Price: | $14.32 (via Amazon marketplace seller) | | | |
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Hackers. That elusive class of computer criminals who break into systems, release viruses, and deface Web sites, right? Wrong! While such computer criminals have helped shape the typical definition of a hacker, not all hackers are out to wreak havoc. There are ethical hackers who crack a system for the sheer challenge of doing so-not to cause damage or destruction. In fact, they often lend a hand to system administrators by notifying them of the loopholes in their system. This book is much more than a guide to hacking. For anyone interested in finding out how your fail-safe system was cracked and how you can better protect yourself, this book is a must-read. It contains helpful resources that you can reference to better protect your system from becoming the victim of attacks. It also includes discussions on the nature of file encryption, firewalls, and viruses and shows how users can make their systems more secure.
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Customer Reviews:
• Garbage 02 March, 2006
The book has nothing but garbage. Most of the vulnerabilities hes talking about have been fixed ages back. And all this stuff is free on the net. Especially the windows registry hacking is horrible. Hes just stolen the ones that fancied him and made it into a chapter. You'll get thousands of such tricks on the net. I wonder how the publisher had the nerve to publish this stolen junk and charge so much for it.
What more, this guy has now published more such books and has started a certification "Ankit Fadia certified ethical hacker" ! Goddamn it.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A20D35CD2ZYMXI
• I Haven't Come Across A Worse Book Than This One. 11 November, 2008
This is the worst book that I have ever come across, not only in Security but also in general. This guy copy-pastes materials from various tutorials from net and fills half the book with code-snippets. I believe Mr. Fadia himself doesn't understand most of these codes which he has so brazenly copied from others. To give an idea of his level of knowledge, I quote from page 142. Here the author is trying to give a method to crack windows passwords. (This is another matter that he is talking about Win95, which was officially stopped by Microsoft much before his book was published).
"...To actually crack the password, you need a simple cracker coded in C called Glide. I have included the code below. If you have sound C knowledge you can study the code and actually experience how a password cracker works and how a password is encrypted in Windows, i.e. more about the Windows encryption algorithm."
This is followed by about three and a half pages of code (copied from net, of course) without any explanation.
Mr. Fadia doesn't even know what he is talking about. He has no idea of how the passwords are stored and how the given code is "trying" to break it (he does not even say that this method will rarely work, probably because he doesn't know so).
I can write a review about each chapter of this book and describe the terrible mistakes and misinformation filled in there. But I have better things to do. Mr. Fadia is a complete crook and may have succeeded in fooling some people once. I only hope that he matures and owns his mistakes. The publishers must have done some background check on his skills before agreeing to publish this book.
And for everyone here, any 5 star reviews here are by the author or his friends. Every sensible reviewer has given only one advice and I will do the same - "DO NOT EVEN THINK OF BUYING THIS BOOK." (Even if someone gives you a book by Mr. Fadia free, refuse politely.)
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2BNWCRNLSVK7G
• Not As 1337 As It Seems 29 August, 2006
I bought this book thinking that I might learn something new about how to protect my computer. After reading the first little bit I realized I already knew all of it because it was all already on the internet. Pretty much this guy got all of the (basic) tutorials for hacking on the internet and compiled them into a book. Also, almost nothing in this book will work if you have minor network security. All the people that gave this a 5 star rating are not very smart. They are impressed because some tough 1337 hacker told them how to crack into systems wreck havoc. Yeah, right. Save the money and read tutorials on the internet. Do not buy.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A12KK3OU5UGI3U
• Um...no... 14 June, 2005
ya...like everyone else...i think that this book is horrible...i mean...it really disgusts me...and...im only 13 and i still find this book to be incredibly immature, unhelpful, and unadvanced...if you are THAT desperate...just do a google search...the entire book is plagiarized...DONT BUY IT...
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1KVQG8IKFT72R
• Oh No Ankit Fadia Again.... 20 April, 2006
wat is wrong wid all these people who are givin 5 star reviews to books written by l33t ankit fatia.cant u people see this is thrash.which respectable hacker would include chapters like changing ur windows 95 logon screen in their book,none besides the great ankit fadia,other cheap material include outdated hacks n winblows 98 tricks.dis lama material was at times so boring dat even even my 11 yr ol bro who has just started out learning bout hacking copuldnt stop laughing and complaining how boring dis read was.is he out of his mind wat was he thinking when he wrote this crap ,did he think its gonna help secure networks and ah windows 95 for ur hacks .why not tell people to get a linux distro fagg maybe ubuntu,mandrake,suse these r secure fatia and for god sake grow up from windows 95.i guess fadia doesnt really care bout all this , hes out there making money just becoz we have stupid kids buying these books n think dey gonna hack the planet.from books to certifications to video seminars ,fadia is taking everybody for a ride.wonders wats planned next maybe a music video or dvd by mr fadia
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1WTOQ8LVU75BS
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