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Monday, 15 August 2005

This is my list of book projects, from newest to oldest. I've loaded all links with my Amazon Associate's ID, so all Associates proceeds benefit charity. Techno Security's Guide to Managing Risks (aka Techno Security's Best Security Practices) This book brought me into a slightly different space, thanks to Jack Wiles and Don Withers at TheTrainingCo. Forget Amazon's reference to Google in the description. I did the "No-Tech Hacking" chapter as a predecessor to my upcoming "No-Tech Hacking" book. Stealing The Network: How to Own a Shadow Contribution: Paul, The Birth of Pawn, Dishonorable Discharge (pages 104-333) This book project took me well over a year, and was by far the most involved project I've ever worked on. As with the other Stealing the Network books, Shadow is tech fiction, recounting the elicit activities of Knuth (a criminal mastermind) his hired guns, and those hot on their trail. I wrote the character Pawn, and worked hard to develop a great character and provide something much more like a mainstream fiction plot line. I think we've succeeded. Thanks to my co-authors Ryan Russel and Tim "Thor" Mullen for all their story ideas and dedication to this series. All in all, this book offers a great fictional experience, but more importantly, it teaches security in technology concepts in a way that's fun and much easier to digest than those crusty RFP papers. Check it out! Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit Contribution: Technical Editor, author of Chapter 8 (I think? The Nessus Intro). This is a great book that is based on a great portable distribution: Auditor from remote-exploit.org. I've always wanted to work on a pen testing book, and I'm very proud of how this one turned out. I was a bit of a jerk during some of the editing, and I was very hard on some of the authors, but the book really pulled together well, and I commend all the authors on the great work they put in. The bulk of the Nessus and Metasploit coverage was authored and presented in other Syngress books, but Syngress included the material in this book to avoid the lame "see our other great books on this subject" crap. Syngress' stance was a good one. Give the reader the content (and 4 free chapters online) instead of forcing them to buy more books. Interested in hacking, how hackers operate or pen testing, this is a great book to get you started. The Auditor CD is included, so you get a great combination of software and "how-to guide" all in one package. Oh, and about the Amazon reviewer that found technical errors. Flat out wrong. I was the technical editor. The tech is solid. The reviewer needs to read up on the craft a bit more. OS X For Hackers at Heart Contribution: Chapter 2 and Chapter 5. I also did a spot of tech editing on this one. Bruce Potter was kind enough to invite me to work on this project, and I must admit I was a bit intimidated. The author list notwithstanding, I considered myself to be a bit of an OS X newbie as I began this project. However, I was asked to cover pen testing, and I certainly know a thing or two about that. The pen testing chapter turned into a "porting" chapter, but after slogging through porting, there's a goldmine of open source security tools that run just peachy under OS X. Combined with the native OS X tools (BSD-based, remember?) the Mac is a pretty sweet pen testing platform. Due to some "circumstances", I also picked up the automation chapter. For this chapter, I cover shell stuff (bash, awk, sed, grep, etc) as well as Automator and Apple Script. The resultant chapter shows how all three of these automation techniques can be used (individually or in combination) to perform some pretty sweet stuff. One of the chapter examples show how nmap (or any command-line program) can be given a point-and click GUI front end in a matter of minutes. I was happy with the outcome, although my chapters tended to be much longer (surprise, surprise =/) and less like an "OS X Hacks" chapter than the others. I learned quite a bit by reading the other chapters in this book, and some of the chapters are just plain FUN. Stealing the Network: How to own an Identity Contribution: Chapters 7, 10 and Epilogue, Shared Tech Editor, Storyline Development This was simply an amazing project! I worked with Anthony Kokocinski on chapters 7 and 10, and he brought a very cool "good guy insight" to these chapters thanks to his years in forensics and law enforcement. The author pool on this book was a real who's who, and it was a real honor working with each and every author. I worked most closely with Tim (Thor) Mullen, and I learned so much from him. I can't thank him enough for propping me as co-editor. A real honor. This project was insane, and weaving the storylines was VERY difficult. There were character and plot timelines to consider, and as a result, this third book ties in very well to the second book (Stealing the Continent). As a result, I am VERY proud of this book, and thanks to this book, I'm driven to write more fiction. We'll see where it goes. Infosec Career Hacking Contribution: Chapter 6: No Place Like /home-- Creating an Attack Lab This was the first straight-up I.T. book I worked on, and I had a blast. I've tweaked and honed my own attack labs for years, and this chapter was an easy one for me to write. If you're looking to get into the Infosec field, this is a great place to start. I wish I had this book many years ago! Another great author pool. Thanks Aaron, for bringing me on! Aggressive Network Self-Defense Contribution: Chapter 4, A VPN Victim's Story: Jack's Smirking Revenge I worked with Neil Archibald on this chapter. Neil was kind enough to code (and explain!) the SMTP strikeback. Neil's a great coder, and a kick-butt security guy. This was a great project for me, because I worked with a stellar group of co-authors, and this was my first project after the Google Hacking book, although Amazon is oblivious of that fact. Seems Amazon isn't very timely with updates. Several other (VERY talented) folks left off the Amazon author list too! Thanks, Grifter, for bringing me on board with this project. It was GREAT fun! Google Hacking for Penetration Testers (shown in English, Spanish, German, Korean, French and Slovak translations. Contribution: Chapters 1-3, part of 4, and 5-11. This was my first book, and it went on to become a Syngress "bestseller" in a very short period of time. This was a ground-up project for me, and it ended up appealing to quite a mass audience, and got tons of press. I worked with Murf and thePsyko from ihackstuff.com, and I personally think it turned out great. This was a real door-opener for me, and little did I know that it would ignite the writer's fire in me...

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