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 | from Tony Bradley, your Editor and Guide Hello again! It was a busy week of re-posting articles from earlier this year. I have to convert them to a new format so I decided to re-post them for those who may have missed them when they were originally posted. There were also two excellent book reviews- The Soft Cage and Hacking - The Art of Exploitation. For those in the United States- have a a Happy Thanksgiving! | ||||||||||||||||
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| Book Review: The Soft Cage I try not to be a conspiracy theorist or paranoid about "Big Brother" government spying on me. A book like this one makes you wonder though. The Soft Cage by Christian Parenti manages to make the subject of surveillance a compelling read. Parenti covers a history of surveillance in America from the mid-1800's through post 9/11. It gives a chilling look into how some of the gadgets we use to simplify our lives and some of the changes made under the auspices of providing better homeland security after the 9/11 terrorist attacks can also be used to track and monitor your actions. |
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| Wireless Network Security for the Home If you've been following along this week you have probably noticed that I am reposting a lot of articles from earlier this year. I am converting old articles to the current format and am taking advantage of the opportunity to highlight them again as well. This article talks about 6 main steps you should take to ensure that your home wireless network is secure. |
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| Book Review: Hacking - The Art of Exploitation Jon Erickson's Hacking: The Art of Exploitation is a phenomenal book. It provides a deeper look at the inner-workings of vulnerability types like heap and stack overflows, string format vulnerabilities and more. Erickson takes it one step further by not only showing you how the vulnerabilities work, but giving you the knowledge you need to analyze the vulnerability and write your own exploit code. A definite must-read for anyone in vulnerability or penetration testing and highly recommended for anyone. |
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