Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 312 pages
• Published by: No Starch Press April 15, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1593270461
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1593270469
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

;login:, October 2005
If you are a 'hacker' type in the old sense of the word you will probably find this book intriguing.

WatchGuard Wire, June 13, 2005 http://www.watchguard.com/RSS/showarticle.aspx?pack=RSS.SotW
Not only thinking outside the box, but twisting the box, shaking it, and finding a way to exploit it.

Reader Reviews
If you have been a senior technical analyst in an infosec shop for several year, you have seen most of this before, in fact some of it has been published before. However, I have never seen so much information in one place on the subject of passive reconnaissance. Who needs horror movies? Read this book and follow it up with Black Ice by Verton and you probably will not sleep for a week! If you work in information warfare, this should be mandatory reading! If you are responsible for very high value targets like Walmart's dataprocessing, or Intel's or Citibank's it is imperative that you read Zalewski's work page by page. I don't think the book will work for those new to networking and technical security. It almost could but the book's layout reads more like a thesis, or an IEEE journal paper than a helpful book that teaches and equips. I do this stuff for a living and had to stop several times and say, "OK what is the point". If this goes to second printing or second edition, I recommend the use of tools such as text boxes and callouts to make the main points easier to follow. Chapter 9 was the biggest disappointment. The author is truly an expert and could have taught the reader so much more about the interpretation of the header fields. However, those are nits, no book can be perfect. The book is well worth the money for the right reader! I am glad I got to read it and will recommend it for the SANS conference book store! Comment | | (Report this)