Title: Phrack for Dummies
Product review: This book is a step in the right direction, but it could be better. It seems to have a lot to say about certain topics, a little to say about others, and nothing to say about still other topics. The coverage of buffer overflows, format string exploits, and writing shellcode is excellent. But then when we get to the networking section, there are a couple of paragraphs devoted to some topics. There is no discussion of web vulnerabilities in the book. Nothing on SQL injection. Nothing on cross-site scripting. Furthermore, the Windows world is totally ignored; Linux is used exclusively in the book. Nevertheless, the book is worth it if only for its unsurpassed overflow/format string/shellcode explanations.
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