Opinions on Hacking Exposed 6th Edition

[kitchetech at gmail.com (matt donovan)]

2009/1/25 Adrian Crenshaw <irongeek at irongeek.com>

> I recently picked up Hacking Exposed 6th Edition from a local library to
> take a peek. One of the things I noticed in the 5th edition was a lack
> luster coverage of cracking Windows SAM files. All they seem to want to talk
> abut is pwdump and having to have admin access to get the hashes, but they
> don't seem to talk about the other ways. I see no mention of the fact you
> can just boot from CD/USB, copy off the SAM and SYSTEM files, pull syskey
> out of SYSTEM and crack the hashes in the SAM with tools like Ophcrack, Cain
> and a few others. Do they just add new material each edition and not go back
> to review the older sections for new/better ways to accomplish the task?
> What are your opinions on the Hacking Exposed series?
>
> Adrian
>
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It's good for non-technical people, if you want much more technical reading
material Hacking Exposed is not a great read.
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