Ian Livingstone is the Godfather of the British gaming industry. In Hacking the Curriculum, he and Shahneila Saeed explain the critical importance of coding and computing in modern schools - and offer teachers and school leaders real practical guidance on how to improve their current provision to a generation of youngsters for whom digital skills are critical.

Gain fascinating insights into schools with distinctive philosophies from around the world and reflect on the lessons we can learn for our own schools and classrooms. Hear how leaders teach creativity at The Royal Ballet School, how faith schools foster curiosity and critical thinking, and how schools in Silicon Valley take lessons from the world of tech. With exclusive interviews from 30 unique schools worldwide, Schools of Thought will prompt you to ask penetrating questions of your own practice and challenge you to think more broadly and more deeply about the principles and practices behind education in a changing world. A must-read for the thoughtful educator who wants to expand their horizons and learn from a diverse range of schools in developing their vision, values and ethos and prepare their pupils for the modern world.

Essential Skills for Hackers is about the skills you need to be in the elite hacker family. The book will mainly about two things: TCP/IP 101, and Protocol Analysis. The better the hacker, the more we will be able to master TCP/IP. Once the reader understands what TCP/IP is, what it looks like, the book will go into Protocol Analysis and how analyzing the protocol or, in a more general sense, looking at packets on the wire, we will be able to determine what exactly is taking place on a network. By doing this, readers can identify when something on the network doesn’t match what it should and, more importantly, can create any type of sequence of events or packets that they want on the network and see how the defenses or the machines that we send them to react. Presents an foundation for the skills required to be an elite hacker.

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This book describes the underlying principles that crop up again and again in hacker attacks, and then focusses on lessons that can be learned, and on how to protect against recurrence. It is a practical reference book for anyone designing or administering a corporate or eBusiness network which runs across a number of platforms via the Internet. It aims to arm systems administrators with a thorough understanding of the problems of network security and their solutions, and thus help realize the tremendous potential of eBusiness. *practical hands-on advice on securing network systems *security checklists for each scenario *detailed pointers to other detailed information sources *in-depth theoretical background information *Multi-platform coverage *Unique external source of info on IBM systems *Wide use of diagrams and illustrations