"Crafting Firearms: A Novice's Guide to Gun Stock Carving" is your essential companion on the journey to transforming a plain firearm into a personalized work of art. Designed especially for beginners, this comprehensive guide demystifies the intricate craft of gun stock carving, making it accessible and rewarding for all enthusiasts. Inside, you'll find step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and creative techniques that enable you to breathe life into your firearm's stock. Whether you se...

Leverage Puppet 5 for medium to large scale enterprise deployment. Key FeaturesUse and deploy Puppet 5, irrespective the size of your organizationScaling, performance improvements, and managing multiple developer requestsTroubleshooting techniques, tips and tricks to make the most of Puppet 5Book DescriptionPuppet is a configuration management system and a language written for and by system administrators to manage a large nu...

"No bold act is too small to be without consequence."An Astra Militarum AnthologyThis collection of 12 short stories tells tales of the most humble soldiers of the Astra Militarum. No gene-enhanced warriors or mutant juggernauts here just brave men and women rising to the challenge of protecting humanity from all enemies within, without, and beyond.READ IT BECAUSEFew stories are as relatable and inspiring as...

The first two books in this series "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box and "Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent have become classics in the Hacker and Infosec communities because of their chillingly realistic depictions of criminal hacking techniques. In this third installment, the all-star cast of authors tackle one of the fastest growing crimes in the world: Identity Theft. Now, the criminal hackers readers have grown to both love and hate try to cover their tracks and van...

"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are fictional, with technology that is real. While none of the stories have happened, there is no reason why they could not. You could argue it provides a road map for criminal hackers, but I say it does something else: it provides a glimpse into the creative minds of some of today's best hackers, and even the best hackers will tell you that the game is a mental one." – from the F...

The best-selling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet.Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow is the final book in Syngress' ground breaking, best-selling, Stealing the Network series. As with previous title, How to Own a Shadow is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, high...

The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech securityKevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Dece...

This is "the Word" -- one man's word, certainly -- about the art (and artifice) of the state of our computer-centric existence. And considering that the "one man" is Neal Stephenson, "the hacker Hemingway" (Newsweek) -- acclaimed novelist, pragmatist, seer, nerd-friendly philosopher, and nationally bestselling author of groundbreaking literary works (Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., etc.) -- the word is well worth hearing. Mostly well-reasoned examination and partial rant, Stephenson's In ...

Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of DeceptionKevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art of Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized case studies that illustrated how savvy computer crackers use "social engineering" to compromise e...

Real-world advice on how to be invisible online from "the FBI's most wanted hacker" (Wired).Be online without leaving a trace. Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin Mitnick uses true-life stories to show exactly what is happening wit...

Tutorial book which teaches Java programmers how to use the xBaseJ library to create and access files in XBASE/DBASE format.

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