@Data_Raid
That actually flabbergasted me.

I believe with the kind of discussion this book is generating in the forums, Don should let someone review it or close this thread. I'm just not comfortable with negatively publicizing something without even a solid proof.

Foot in mouth.

The AUTHOR of this book is the self-aggrandizing person I was unwittingly talking about in my previous post.

I have read a few pieces regarding his general lack of knowledge, but it has been a couple years.

Don't buy this book. Check out the following book review by Ben Rothke:

https://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/securityreading/2010/06/10/how-to-become-the-worlds-no-1-hacker

This book is a work of plagiarism:

plagiarism? copied entire chunks while at the same time not bothering to "modify" the copied text? oh Lord...

One of the reviews on Amazon points out where all the different bits were stolen from. 

This is a pretty good rundown:

https://365.rsaconference.com/blogs/securityreading/2010/06/14/fair-use-plagiarism-and-the-world-s-no-1-hacker-book

A few days ago, my friend had passed a link showing this guys company website (Ligatt Security?) with an XSS vulnerability.. lol

I don't know how this guy gets any sort of publicity. I know that the publisher of that book has been contacted and I guess we'll see what happens.

I didn't want to write about this guy whose name is Gregory Evans, author of the World's n.1 hacker book until I had some other references confirming what I had to say.

My name is Armando Romeo and I've run Hackers Center www.hackerscenter.com for years (now I run eLearnSecurity).

Gregory Evans with his LigattSecurity company is stealing my content since 2006.
In 2006 he was re-selling the HSC Ethical Hacker Kit at 3 times our price stealing money from people who then mailed me asking why I was selling the same at a lower price.

After a lot of communication with the guy (saying that software is like cars - he could sell used cars and used software at the price he decided), turned out that his is not a Security company but a lawyers company that defend him against the many lawsuits he has to face every time.

This time turns out that according to Amazon reviewer Ben Rothke

"[...] the biggest plagiarized section, namely the 5,354 words, which is the entire chapter 12. The author never mentions that he copied it verbatim from the Hacker's Center Security Portal."

http://www.amazon.com/review/R38U5KCREHIKL/ref=cm_aya_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0982609108#wasThisHelpful

What is really annoying and disappointing is that TV's and medias are still giving coverage to such a criminal and not even mentioning the efforts taken by a website like Hackers Center providing the community with free genuine contents  since 2000.

At the time I didn't have the money a California lawyer asked me to go after him. This time, me and the other plagiarized authors will try to make some justice.