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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage is a 1989 book written by Clifford Stoll. It is his first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Stoll's use of the term extended the metaphor Cuckoo's egg from brood parasitism in birds to ...
No Starch Press was founded in 1994 by Bill Pollock. It is headquartered in San Francisco.The company has published titles that have received recognition in the Communication Arts Design Annual and STEP inside 100 competition, and have been awarded the Independent Publisher Book Award (the IPPYs) from Independent Publisher magazine.
The approach relies on explaining a topic step-by-step, using basic terminology, definitions of words, and profiles of people. Alpha Books, publisher of the Complete Idiot's Guides, is a member of Penguin Group. It began as a division of Macmillan.
Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange.It describes the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British black hat hackers during the late 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself.
Jeremy Alexander Hammond [9] was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Glendale Heights, Illinois, with his twin brother Jason. [2] [10] Hammond became interested in computers at an early age, programming video games in QBasic by age eight, and building databases by age thirteen.
In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of guessing passwords [1] protecting a computer system.A common approach (brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password. [2]
"Hacking, The art of exploitation" Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (ISBN 1-59327-007-0) is a book by Jon "Smibbs" Erickson about computer security and network security. [1] It was published by No Starch Press in 2003, [2] [3] with a second edition in 2008. [4] [5] All the examples in the book were developed, compiled, and tested on Gentoo ...