Proofread? Editorial and Technical reveiw?....

For a book dedicated to such an important topic, my experience with this book was at best disappointing. This goes both for the authors (as they are primarily responsible for the material), as well as the publisher (Syngress). One would doubt whether the book has gone through any meaningful editorial review process. The errata posted on Syngress' site (bad site-design with a great deal of broken URLs in the book's relevant-links page by the way, and one "has to" sign up to obtain the errata) are utterly incomplete. The book at the time of this writing lacks an accompanying website (no reference in the errata or in the book itself).

This is an unfortunate development that one certainly notices in the recent publications pertaining to security topic, perhaps as a result of the urge to push content out to satisfy the hot-market demands.

On the technical front, the choice for the topics seems to be reasonably covering most corners; however, throughout the book there's a focus on pre-SP2 release of Microsoft Windows XP; why? If one of the objectives of the authors was to educate the audience on the topics (by providing practical and working examples), wouldn't such choice defeat the purpose?

Other Reviews

• Full of errors and inconsistencies
• Great book to start with.
• Proofread? Editorial and Technical reveiw?....
• Finally a book on BO attacks
• Disturbing