Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow

by Johnny Long, Ryan Russell, Timothy Mullen

Overview

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 Syngress' 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 final book in the Stealing the Network series will be a must read for the 50,000 readers worldwide of the first three titles - Law enforcement and security professionals will gain practical, technical knowledge for apprehending the most supplicated cyber-adversaries

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780080517759
Publisher:	Syngress Publishing
Publication date:	04/18/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	448
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Johnny Long is a Christian by grace, a professional hacker by trade, a pirate by blood, a ninja in training, a security researcher and author. He can be found lurking at his website (http://johnny.ihackstuff.com). He is the founder of Hackers For Charity(http://ihackcharities.org), an organization that provides hackers with job experience while leveraging their skills for charities that need those skills.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Authors Story Editor Technical Inspiration Contributing Authors and Technical Editors, STN: How to Own an Identity Contributing Authors Special Contributor Foreword Contributor Copyeditor Technical Editor and Contributor, STN: How to Own a Continent Contributors Technical Reviewer Technical Advisors Technical Editor STN: How to Own the Box Contributing Authors Preface Foreword Chapter 1: Travel Plans From the Diary of Robert Knoll, Senior Chapter 2: Back in the Saddle Chapter 3: Old Man and a Ghost Chapter 4: Rootkit From the Diary of Robert Knoll, Senior Chapter 5: Paul Blue Paint, Dark Skies Rubber Bouncing Swords A Hacker in the Making Chapter 6: The Birth of Pawn Showing Off For Rafa The POST Challenge "C Is For Cookie Chapter 7: Dishonorable Discharge A 'Blah' Sort of Day Just Another Random Encounter Damsel In Distress You're Not Just a Customer First Contact I've got an RFIDea … Testing the Shark-Infested Waters I've Got Good News and Bad News Chapter 8: McGaylver Flashback to Knuth There's Something Else The Chase