Ebook: Hack I.T.: Security Through Penetration Testing

“This book covers not just the glamorous aspects such as the intrusion act itself, but all of the pitfalls, contracts, clauses, and other gotchas that can occur. The authors have taken their years of trial and error, as well as experience, and documented a previously unknown black art.”
-From the Foreword by Simple Nomad, Senior Security [...]

Ebook: Hacking - The Art of Exploitation

Hacking is the art of creating problem solving, whether used to find an unconventional solution to a difficult problem or to exploit holes in sloppy programming. Many people call themselves hackers, but few have the strong technical foundation that a hacker needs to be successful. Hacking: The Art of Exploitation explains things that every real [...]

Ebook: Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference

The Unix for Oracle DBAs Pocket Reference is a quick reference describing the Unix commands most often used by Oracle database administrators. It’s the result of my 20 years of accumulating Unix tips and techniques. For each of the commands included in this book, I’ve provided the basic syntax and a short, illustrative example. This [...]

Ebook: Solaris™ 9 Security

Solaris is one of the most widely used operating systems. One of the main reasons for its popularity is its enhanced security. Solaris 9 protects systems from internal and external security threats by restricting access to system data, authenticating and encrypting interactive sessions with the Solaris operating environment, and supporting protocol for password updates, regardless [...]

Ebook: Solaris™ Solutions for System Administrators

Time-Saving Tips, Techniques, and Workarounds, Second Edition
“The network is the computer.” More than a catchy phrase, this slogan (which Sun coined more than a dozen years ago) describes a fundamental reality of computing today: The location of data, processing, and services are not as important as how and when these resources are used. With advances [...]

Ebook: The Practice of Network Security: Deployment Strategies for Production Environments

This book shows you how to secure an enterprise network in the real world-when you’re on the front lines, constantly under attack, and you don’t always get the support you need. Symantec security engineer and former UUNet network architect Allan Liska addresses every facet of network security, from risk profiling through access control, Web/email security [...]

Ebook: Hacker’s Delight

“This is the first book that promises to tell the deep, dark secrets of computer arithmetic, and it delivers in spades. It contains every trick I knew plus many, many more. A godsend for library developers, compiler writers, and lovers of elegant hacks, it deserves a spot on your shelf right next to Knuth.”-Josh Bloch
“When [...]

Ebooks: The Complete FreeBSD(R) - Third Edition

FreeBSD is a high-performance operating system derived from the Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California at Berkeley between 1975 and 1993. FreeBSD is not a UNIX clone. Historically and technically, it has greater rights than UNIX System V to be called UNIX. Legally, it may not [...]

Ebook: Firewalls Complete

The Internet is an all pervasive entity in today’s world of computing. To cope with the “wild” Internet, several security mechanisms were developed, among them access controls, authentication schemes and firewalls, as one of the most secure methods.
However, firewall means different things for different people. Consider the fable from India about the blind men and [...]

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