I wasn't much into hacking until I started reading this
http://www2.evilshare.com/2855520c-b...4-0007e90cfb90

I've only got to the section on ping sweeping.

Well, everyone knows books really arn't gunna teach you everything (especially the ones which are sold publicly), But i have seen this book around on the shevles, and peeped through it. I have 'Hacking - The art of exploitation' though i beleive its a little in depth for me at the moment. I liked reading 'The Art of Intrusion' just to hear about other peoples hacks. Also 'A complete hackers handbook' (Though i think its a little outdated by now) is quite a good browse through to get grips with particular software programs for cracking or programs like nmap.

Thanks for sharing! (the download is safe, btw)

They're good for beginners though. I'm learning shitloads from it.

oh yeah, no dout about that, from knowing nothing to reading that book and more will certainly get people to some level of knowledge. Though I believe you only really learn something if you practacally do something. Take Programming for instance, you can read all night long for your entire life, but i bet you will learn better trying to program and learning from your mistakes.

Though it would have been better if you found the firth edition of the book.

Yeah, I've read some good books on the subject, but like FailedArtifact said, you can't learn it all from books. I recently bought Steal The Computer Book 4.0, and The Art of Intrusion. Funnily enough, Steal This Computer Book mentions Totse, as well as showing off a couple screenshots of it. Yup, that's right. Totse's in a book. A real book.

Lol, I remember that. What's the category, phreaking sites or something?

That book is total shit though.

Yeah, something like that... I don't have the book here at the moment. You're right, not a very good book at all. It's mostly filled with phreaking/hacking history and simple tricks that everybody knows... Still, it had &T in it!

In this book it talks about whois servers like whois.networksolutions.com and when I do a whois on networksolutions it mentions whois.networksolutions.com but when I type "whois site.com@whois.networksolutions.com" into the gnome shell it says "No whois server is known for this kind of object."

What am I doing wrong here?

err, might have the wrong end of the stick, how about typing 'man whois' into the shell, to get the manual, usually there pretty usefull with examples.