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Hacking For Dummies
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(Paperback - Jan. 12, 2010)
by Kevin Beaver
Sales Rank: 20768
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List Price: $29.99
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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: For Dummies; 3 edition January 12, 2010
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780470550939
ISBN-13: 978-0470550939
ASIN: 0470550937
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Review
‘…it is easy to read, the presentation is clear and uncluttered, it caters for a variety of audiences…' (BCS.org, February 2010).
Customer Reviews & Comments
I used to wonder why anyone would want to break into my computer, there's not much there of any interest. Even I don't find it all that interesting. Then one day I was puzzled when my ISP asked why my machine was putting out millions of bytes of stuff to the point where it was bogging down their T1 line. I didn't know. We unpluged the machine from the network and it stopped sending. We plugged it back in and it wasn't sending. But the next day it was.
It wasn't until we got an e-mail telling us to stop sending out copyrighted movies that we realized what had happened. It wasn't anything in my computer they wanted, it was the bandwidth. Knowing what to look for it wasn't all that hard to stop. Google quickly provided links on this problem.
This book is aimed at people just like me. It gives an overall, if fairly light, view of the overall security problem. Like the other For Dummies books it has a writing style that doesn't (quite) put you to sleep. It has enough humor to enable you to get through it. It won't make you an expert, but it will point out the problem areas so that you can go deeper into those that are important to you. It's a good introduction.
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Hacking For Dummies
List Price: $29.99
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Price: $19.69
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