The Unrevealed Secrets of Hacking and Cracking: Hack Before You Get Cracked: A Review

Technology has surpassed everyone’s imagination in the last decade or so. Mobile phones have become smart and the people are trying very hard to keep up with them and the frequent changes that come along with them. It is the time when you are 24x7 online and even your essential data is. This has made us vulnerable to certain threats.

Very few books have come on this subject of hacking and cracking and how to safeguard against the eminent threat looming over our heads. The ones that do come have too much of technical jargon, that layman like me find it difficult to read. Prateek Shukla’s book intends to address both the problems. The problem that we have with network security issues and that it is difficult to find a decent book that provides the correct information without being too boring.

The Unrevealed Secrets of Hacking and Cracking gives you an opportunity to learn the basis of hacking and what it means to be an ethical hacker and how they differentiate them from a cracker, and do so without having to suffer a headache. It is good for the beginners and technologically inept people who want to understand the nuances but can’t handle the technicality of it.

The book gives you a generalized idea of who an ethical hacker is and what he does for a government or a private organisation. It also gives you tools for protecting your network and data. It has a lot of diagrams and pictures which help you in remembering details and the English used is easy and comprehensible.

Prateek Shukla and his co-author, Navneet Mehra has done a commendable job in making sure the book is understandable and making the world of hacking and cracking fun. There are some case studies and examples which make you relate to the book and learn about the big words of IT without making you cringe.

For all those who are beginners or are interested in the field of ethical hacking, can read this book and for all those souls who want to protect their data and network and don’t know how to, can too grab the book and make your computers less susceptible to cracking and hacking.