I'd like to thank several publishers for sending me new books from my Amazon.com Wish List to read and review. The first is Hacking Exposed: Wireless by Johnny Cache and Vincent Liu, published by McGraw-Hill/Osborne. I love the green -- talk about a departure from the old red covers. If you want to sound 31337 you should make fun of any Hacking Exposed book, but I don't care. The great majority of these titles follow a format which I think suits 90% of the security community.
- Introduce a technology or service with which the reader may or may not be familiar.
- Discuss ways to attack said technology or service.
- Provide countermeasures for attacks.
Many books ignore step 1, focus on step 2, and breeze over step 3. A good HE book covers all three phases.< The second book is Backup and Recovery by W. Curtis Preston, published by O'Reilly. This book is more of a reference for me than a read cover-to-cover, so I'm not sure if I will review it. (I strongly tend to review only that which I read throroughly.) The book covers so many useful aspects of backup, however, that I'll probably read a good deal of it. The third book is Building a Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios, by David Josephsen, published by PHPTR. I've already read and reviewed two other books on Nagios, so I'm wondering what this much shorter book has to say. I don't have a Nagios installation running anywhere, so if I can find the time maybe I'll use this new book as an excuse to finally deploy Nagios. This newest version discussed in the book is 2.5, but Nagios 3 alpha code became available last month. I'll probably try the new version.
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