Upcoming Reviews
I should have my copy of “No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing” in soon, with a review soon to follow. It’s written by Johnny Long, who has given some talks at conferences in the past year or two on the topic. If the book is as [...]
Review: 2600, The Hacker Quarterly, Winter 2007-2008
Once again, I have my hands on the newest issue of 2600 magazine, and I’m writing an article-by-article review. As usual, there are some interesting articles, some laughable articles, and some articles that are just plain bad. I hope you enjoy the review, and maybe it’ll inspire you to pick up a copy [...]
UPS Demonstrates Information-Hiding Skills
I came home to this today:
Apparently, UPS felt the need to hide their delivery under our welcome mat. I’m sure nobody else in the apartment complex suspected a thing ;) .
I don’t mind, though, because the payload was my copy of “The Web Application Hacker’s Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws” by Dafydd Stuttard [...]
Review: 2600, The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 2007
For the summer issue of 2600, I decided to write an article-by-article review of the magazine, which you can read here. It turned out to be one of the more popular posts I’ve made, and it was fun to write. With this in mind, I’ve decided to do it again, with the Autumn [...]
Book Review: The Shellcoder’s Handbook, Second Edition
The Shellcoder’s Handbook, Discovering and Exploiting Security Holes, Second Edition
Chris Anley, John Heasman, Felix “FX” Linder, Gerardo Rircharte
Wiley Publishing
Released August 2007
717 pages
ISBN: 978-0-470-08023-8
The $50 cover price of “The Shellcoder’s Handbook” is a real bargain, in the hands of a motivated self-learner, compared with the cost of equivalent training. The real cost of this book, [...]
Review: 2600, The Hacker Quarterly, Summer 2007
Every few months or so, I find myself reading the new issue of 2600, The Hacker Quarterly. It’s not a great magazine, or even a good one sometimes, but even if there are no useful articles or projects to tinker with in it, I always get enough laughs out of it to make it [...]
Review: Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking
If you already have one of these very popular and versatile routers, are in need of a good platform for small-scale network infrastructure, or want to use the WRT as a platform for penetration testing, then “Linksys WRT54G Ultimate Hacking” is a must-have. I read this book cover-to-cover this weekend, in-between moving things around [...]