HackNotes Windows Security Portable Reference covers very interesting and pertinent topics, especially ones such as common ports and services, NetBIOS name table definitions, and other very specific areas that are essential to understand if one is to genuinely comprehend how Windows systems are attacked. Author Michael O’Dea covers not only well-known but also more mobscure (but nevertheless potentially dangerous) attacks. Above all else, he writes in a very clear, well-organized, and concise style—a style that very few technical books can match.