Book Review: Revised Edition of Dissecting the Hack – The F0rb1dd3n Network
Last year, I reviewed Jayson Street’s Dissecting The Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network, uncovering a massive amount of plagiarism that resulted in the book getting pulled, pending a revision. Here are the posts that chronicle those events:
The original review – …before I realized the extent of the plagiarism. To summarize: I enjoyed the book’s fictional section, [...]
Syngress Response to Plagiarism in Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network
Laura Colantoni of Syngress posted the following statement, regarding the recent discovery that a large portion of Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network is plagiarized. My commentary follows the statement:
The team at Syngress recently found out through our Twitter feed that Dissecting the Hack might have plagiarized material. The twitter feeds led us here where [...]
Amending my F0rb1dd3n Network Review
Jayson called me regarding this post, and I promised to let him tell his side of the story, right here, at the top of the post, so here it is:
I am more stunned than anyone on finding this out. When Kent and I finally got the book deal from Syngress we were overjoyed and immediately [...]
Book Review: Dissecting the Hack – The F0rb1dd3n Network
Edit: I have added an amendment to this review in this post, when it became obvious to me that the majority of the material in the STAR portion of this book is plagiarized.
Jayson E. Street and Kent Nabors’ The F0rb1dd3n Network is the first in what is proposed to be a new series of “hacker [...]
Book Review: The Rootkit Arsenal
Bill Blunden’s book, The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System, is one of the hidden gems in computer security books, and I hope that I can convince you to give it a look. This review has been too-long to arrive, as I haven’t had the time to read that [...]
Misleading description of the Stealing the Network compilation
This is just a quick note to serve as a warning to anyone who might be considering buying “Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition” after reading the description on the Elsevier site:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/715444/description
While I was reading the book and preparing my review, I found that the publisher’s description was inaccurate and misleading, emailed a [...]
Download Stealing the Network’s “The Final Chapter” for free until May 6
If you read my review of Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition, then you’d know that the only real additional content in the new edition is a new chapter by Ryan Russell: “The Final Chapter”. I liked Ryan’s conclusion to the story, but I doubt that many people who already own the other [...]
Book Review: Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition
Title: Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition
Authors: Johnny Long, Ryan Russell, Timothy Mullen (among many others not acknowledged on the cover)
Publisher: Syngress Publishing
Release Date: May 18th, 2009
ISBN: 978-1597492997
I have just finished a marathon session of reading “Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector’s Edition” and I have a very conditional review of it: It’s [...]
LOL’ing my LOL’er off at the Syngress IDA Pro Book
I ran across this after I finished reading back-to-back reviews by Phn1x and Ilfak Guilfanov of the sounds-like-it’s-excellent “The IDA Pro Book“ by Chris Eagle, from No Starch Press. Excellent reviews, and the book looks really good. Please don’t confuse it’s coolness with the lameness I’m about to copy-paste about. I’ll probably wind up buying [...]
Book Review: No Tech Hacking
You probably already know this, but Johnny Long is a really great guy. He’s donating the proceeds of this book to the AOET:
AOET is an independent, indigenous non-governmental organization with the prime mandate of providing an education (formal and/or vocational) to desperately poor, neglected and forgotten orphans whose parents have died of AIDS. AOET [...]