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Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow
$49.95
Remember "stealing the network, how to own the box" how groundbreaking and fun it was to read, an intesely technical, multifaceted thriller. Remember reading the next two books, how to own an identity and how to own a continent, glued to the pages as the authors seemlessly twisted what started off as an unorganised collection of stories in the first book into a over arching plot in the next two.

Now forget all that because the excellent story format of the first three books has been dumped. The whole book now is written by just three guys and they're not very good writers. Knuth the shadowy arch villian escapes the clutches of the NSA only set up seedy poker website and spend his time sampling the local prostitutes. We meet a new character pawn, who is a naieve ninja(literally) hacker extrodinaire, the only way he could be more awesome would be if he was a pirate as well as a ninja. How someone could be such an accomplished hacker and so freaking naieve I have no idea, you'd think the person who spends his whole day breaking into other peoples computers would be a little bit more paranoid about his interpersonal interactions instead of just trusting every person who tries to exploit him.

To top it all off, nothing happens in this book, we introduce 3 new characters and that is it. Nothing else of consequence.

I can only assume the authors got greedy and decided that they didn't want to cut anyone else in on this book so they could take all the money for themselves. They also seems to have decided that 1 book wouldn't give them enough money so they artificially elongated it and turn it into 2 books, hey maybe it's a triology who knows, this could be the next Star Wars, they can all be George Lucas.

Basically if you loved the other 3 books steer clear of this one, it stinks.

Syngress Force 2006 Emerging Threat Analysis: From Mischief to Malicious
$49.95
A One-Stop Reference Containing the Most Read Topics in the Syngress Security Library

This Syngress Anthology Helps You Protect Your Enterprise from Tomorrow's Threats Today

This is the perfect reference for any IT professional responsible for protecting their enterprise from the next generation of IT security threats. This anthology represents the "best of" this year's top Syngress Security books on the Human, Malware, VoIP, Device Driver, RFID, Phishing, and Spam threats likely to be unleashed in the near future..


* From Practical VoIP Security, Thomas Porter, Ph.D. and Director of IT Security for the FIFA 2006 World Cup, writes on threats to VoIP communications systems and makes recommendations on VoIP security.
* From Phishing Exposed, Lance James, Chief Technology Officer of Secure Science Corporation, presents the latest information on phishing and spam.
* From Combating Spyware in the Enterprise, Brian Baskin, instructor for the annual Department of Defense Cyber Crime Conference, writes on forensic detection and removal of spyware.
* Also from Combating Spyware in the Enterprise, About.com's security expert Tony Bradley covers the transformation of spyware.
* From Inside the SPAM Cartel, Spammer-X shows how spam is created and why it works so well.
* From Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise, Paul Piccard, former manager of Internet Security Systems' Global Threat Operations Center, covers Skype security.
* Also from Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise, Craig Edwards, creator of the IRC security software IRC Defender, discusses global IRC security.
* From RFID Security, Brad "Renderman" Haines, one of the most visible members of the wardriving community, covers tag encoding and tag application attacks.
* Also from RFID Security, Frank Thornton, owner of Blackthorn Systems and an expert in wireless networks, discusses management of RFID security.
* From Hack the Stack, security expert Michael Gregg covers attacking the people layer.
* Bonus coverage includes exclusive material on device driver attacks by Dave Maynor, Senior Researcher at SecureWorks.

* The "best of" this year: Human, Malware, VoIP, Device Driver, RFID, Phishing, and Spam threats
* Complete Coverage of forensic detection and removal of spyware, the transformation of spyware, global IRC security, and more
* Covers secure enterprise-wide deployment of hottest technologies including Voice Over IP, Pocket PCs, smart phones, and more