The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking - Ankit Fadia

Title: An Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking
Price: Rs. 385
Publisher: Macmillan India Ltd.

Description:

(From Amazon.com)

The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking 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 discussion on the nature of file encryption, firewalls, and viruses and shows how users can make their systems more secure.

(From Library Journal)

"Ethical hacking" may seem like an oxymoron, but to 17-year-old Indian high school student Fadia, it's a way of life. This book extends his Hacking Truths site (hackingtruths.box.sk), describing hackers as computer experts who do break into systems but refrain from causing damage. From password cracking to finding hacking utilities online, the ideas here will help intermediate to advanced readers protect their own systems and resolve situations ranging from lost passwords to viruses. While the writing is somewhat awkward, Fadia's voice and perspective shine through. Recommended for larger libraries. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

(From Book News, Inc.)

Offering a counterpoint to the common view of hackers as criminals, 16-year-old Fadia encourages a new wave of helpful hackers who break into systems purely for the scientific challenge, leaving files and systems unscathed and offering security pointers to system administrators. The results of Fadia's experiments are published here, with step-by-step hacks for Windows, Linux, and DOS, and information on firewalls, viruses and mail bombs for hackers, programmers, system administrators or anyone interested in making their computer system more (or less) secure. Though young, Fadia is a hacking authority and is founder of Hacking Truths web site. Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

(From Book Info)

For anyone interested in finding out how your failsafe system was cracked and how you can better protect yourself, this book is a must-read. Contains helpful resources that you can reference to better protect your system from becoming the victim of attacks.