The Bottom Line
The Hacker's Challenge 2, like its predecessor, is an entertaining and creative way to learn and apply computer incident response and forensic skills. A "whodunnit" for security techies.
Pros
- 19 new and exciting challenges to crack
- Entertaining and educational at the same time
- Creative way to learn and apply security knowledge
Cons
- Doesn't specify author of each challenge
Description
- Book reads almost more like a mystery novel that you can't put down until you're finished
- Engaging and entertaining style keep you hooked while you learn about computer forensics
- All new challenges test your incident response skills to try and figure out how the hacker got in
Guide Review - Book Review: Hacker's Challenge 2
Hacker's Challenge 2 is a sort of practical exam for the Hacking Exposed series. Hacker's Challenge was a terrific book for putting some incident response and forensic skills to use and practicing for the real thing. Hacker's Challenge 2 continues the tradition and should be a must read for anyone who works with network security and incident response. The style of the challenges is fairly entertaining and the plots are so engaging you may not want to put the book down. Its like a best-selling mystery novel for network security techies. It may not affect the quality of the book overall, but I preferred having the authors of the individual challenges identified as they were in Hacker's Challenge. However, you should definitely buy this book!
