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The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders & Deceivers
by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
from Wiley
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Good info, but not nearly as good as "The Art of Deception" 
I read "The Art of Deception" when it came out, and I thought this book would be on-par with that. Although it has a lot of good information, the book does not reflect the quality of the previous book, in terms of the content being well laid out, Mitnick's side-bars, and the recommendations at the end of each section. In addition, many of the recommendations are generic, and not suited to realistic usage and architecture constraints. My sense from the previous book was that Mitnick was the expert, whereas... more info
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Good value insight
As with The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security, Mitnick tells a series of hackers' stories, each one a basic case study illustrating a different person or group.
The techniques described include:
- Hardware hacking: reverse-engineering the pseudorandom number generators in slot machines and cloning mobile phones;
- Classical computer and network hacking: guessing or brute-force cracking of weak passwords, sniffing network traffic, SQL injection, oh-days, running... more info
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The Art of War On Line
This book is the Internet's Art of War new version of Tsun Tzu original, don't expect to learn how to be a Hacker, but if you learn from each person interviewed by Mitnick on each chapter you'll find how a Hacker thinks, how they challenge IT Managers or IT experts.
You will find that you have already failed in some basic topics that can be used against you. You will learn another way of thinking, if you want of course, and how to be more perceptive and conscious about security; for this last point i... more info
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Enlightening
Kevin Mitnick's writing style is at best elementary, but the story's shared in this book are the stories people need to hear. Mitnick successfully gives the reader enough information to understand what computer security threats exist, while keeping from ever enabling the reader to carry out such computer attacks.
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