Stealing the network

How to own the box

Ryan Russell

320 pages, parution le 03/06/2003

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From Chapter 5, The Thief No One Saw

This is my story. My name is Dex. I'm a 22-year-old systems administrator. I live in an upper-class apartment in New York's CBD. My apartment is lined with computers, coffee cups, and cables. I work eight hours a day for a small online e-commerce site, mostly managing servers and security.

In my free time, I run my own contract development company, writing mostly C/C++. I also moonlight as a "Rent a Thief" for a black market media "distribution" company based out of Taiwan. On demand, I hack into companies and steal whatever is required. Usually, it's a new, highly anticipated game or a large, expensive CAD (computer-aided design) software package. Once, I was even asked to steal software used to design a nuclear power plant. I don't ask questions. This thievery doesn't stop at software, though. There is big money in commercial plans, financial data, and customer contact lists, as well.

I do this because I enjoy the rush and the feeling of outsmarting someone else. I never tell anyone else about a hack, and to date, only a few companies I've hit even suspected that they had been hacked. I am not a part of the typical hacker community, and I always work alone....

Collaborators : Tim Mullen (Thor), FX, Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky, Joe Grand, Ken Pfeil, Ido Dubrawsky, Mark Burnett, Paul Craig

Hide and Sneak
The Worm Turns
Just Another Day at the Office
h3X's Adventures in Networkland-FX
The Thief No One Saw
Flying the Friendly Skies
dis-card
Social (In)Security
BabelNet
The Art of Tracking

Appendix: The Laws of Security

L'auteur - Ryan Russell

Ryan Russell

is MIS Manager at SecurityFocus.com. He has served as an expert witness on security topics and has done internal security investigation for a major software vendor. Ryan has contributed to three Syngress Media books, on networking topics. He has a degree in computer science from San Francisco State University.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Syngress
Auteur(s)	Ryan Russell
Parution	03/06/2003
Nb. de pages	320
Format	18,7 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	680g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781931836876
ISBN13	978-1-931836-87-6