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Stealing the network : how to own a shadow
Record details
- ISBN: 6612552492
- ISBN: 9786612552496
- ISBN: 0080517757
- ISBN: 9780080517759
- ISBN: 1429456485
- ISBN: 9781429456487
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxvi, 409 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Rockland, Mass. : Syngress ; [Sebastopol, Calif.] : Distributed by O'Reilly & Associates in the United States and Canada, ©2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Black Hat"--Cover. " ... fourth book in the "Stealing the network series."--Preface. "The chase for Knuth"--Cover. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Title; Authors & Creators; Preface; Foreword; Travel Plans; Back in the Saddle; Old Man and a Ghost; Rootkit; Paul; The Birth of Pawn; Dishonorable Discharge; McGaylver; Appendix: Flashback to Knuth; There's Something Else; The Chase. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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| Subject: | Hackers -- Fiction Computer security -- Fiction Cyberterrorism -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Electronic books. Electronic books. Fiction. |
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- Elsevier Science and Technology
The best-selling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet.
Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow is the final book in Syngressâ ground breaking, best-selling, Stealing the Network series. As with previous title, How to Own a Shadow is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, highly detailed scenarios of computer intrusions and counter-strikes. In How to Own a Thief, Knuth, the master-mind, shadowy figure from previous books, is tracked across the world and the Web by cyber adversaries with skill to match his own. Readers will be amazed at how Knuth, Law Enforcement, and Organized crime twist and torque everything from game stations, printers and fax machines to service provider class switches and routers steal, deceive, and obfuscate. From physical security to open source information gathering, Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow will entertain and educate the reader on every page. The bookâs companion Web site will also provide special, behind-the-scenes details and hacks for the reader to join in the chase for Knuth.
· The final book in the Stealing the Network series will be a must read for the 50,000 readers worldwide of the first three titles
· The companion Web site to the book will provide challenging scenarios from the book to allow the reader to track down Knuth
· Law enforcement and security professionals will gain practical, technical knowledge for apprehending the most supplicated cyber-adversaries - Ingram Book Company
The bestselling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet.
