[NTLUG:Discuss] book

[Christopher Browne]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 21:38:50 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Kelly Scroggins <kelly at cliffhanger.com>  said:
>I have Practical Unix & Internet Security as well as Building Internet
>Firewalls.  They are both very good books.
>
>I like to read different authors because ones style may shed light in
>some dark corner that light had not previously reached.
>
>In the interest of gaining knowledge to prevent attacks, I am interested
>in something that can show me how the hacking/craking is done.  What
>better way to defend against the other team than to actually have their
>play book?

When I was at the Amarillo Linux show, one vendor (Brickhouse) had
the "Happy Hacker Book" at their booth as a book that explains this
sort of thing.  

Brickhouse sells a pretty nifty firewall system where they modify the
kernel to check a permission table before letting applications run;
they offer a challenge where they give everyone root access, and will
give whomever can get at the contents of a certain file $1000.  That's
a pretty tall order...

Anyhoo, here's a link to the book, as well as to "some of its friends."

<a href="http://www.happyhacker.org/hhbook.html"> Happy Hacker Book </a>
- essentially a hacking-into-systems "HOWTO."

<a href= "http://www.happyhacker.org/bookstore.html"> Hacking Bookstore
- Security Tools </a> ... that are probably usable both "for good and
for evil."
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