Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD

Stealing the Network

by Ryan Russell, Ryan Russell, Timothy Mullen

"Stealing the How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are fictional, with technology that is real. While none of the stories have happened, there is no reason why they could not. You could argue it provides a road map for criminal hackers, but I say it does something it provides a glimpse into the creative minds of some of today’s best hackers, and even the best hackers will tell you that the game is a mental one." – from the Foreword to the first Stealing the Network book, How to Own the Box, Jeff Moss, Founder & Director, Black Hat, Inc. and Founder of DEFCON For the very first time the complete Stealing the Network epic is available in an enormous, over 1000 page volume complete with the final chapter of the saga and a DVD filled with behind the scenes video footage! These groundbreaking books created a fictional world of hacker superheroes and villains based on real world technology, tools, and tactics. It is almost as if the authors peered into the future as many of the techniques and scenarios in these books have come to pass. This book contains all of the material from each of the four books in the Stealing the Network series. All of the stories and tech

Genres: Hackers, Technical, Technology, Nonfiction, Computer Science, Cyberpunk

1082 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2009

Reviews

[Takedown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally done with the whole series, can't say i particularly like it as much as i wanted to. Some parts was interesting some was boring. It is a book for hackers by hackers, no casual reading for you unless you work in infosec. I also didn't like verbose output from tools being posted, you could've just cut at least. Can't say i learned something that i already didn't know either. Dunno, overall i've got an impression that books too much stretched and you could easily cut in half. Anyway, the whole series kinda meh, but maybe worth to skim over.

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Each chapter was written by a different author, tells an overarching story. Some of the chapters were very well written, others not so much. This book is more about the individual stories and security principals than the overarching story, if you expect the main story thread to be fully tied up at the end you'll be disappointed. If you some fun hacking stories with some entertaining characters then you should enjoy this. If you are not familiar with security principals and programing already this book isn't going to turn you into a hacker overnight but it might give you an idea on where to get started.

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining and informational. I especially liked the combination of describing real attacks against a real-world setting. It's much more interesting to learn about security in the context of time and politics. Attacks are described as taking days or weeks to research and defense is described as post-cleanup reports by the good guys. On top of that, there's a decent background of how this sort of activity fits into the greater social and economic landscape so we get a glimpse of how governments and criminal organizations have taken root in the technology sector.

It's great reading all the way up to the last book.