Errata

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The section on the "NASA Mars Lander" warrants an extra paragraph:

The Mars Polar Lander smashed into Mars, due to a premature shutdown of descent engines when software incorrectly interpreted a spurious sensor signal as meaning it had touched down. In addition, the Mars Climate Orbiter had a navigation flaw due to mix-up of English and metric units, more a pure play on human error and process bugs than real software bug. It is assumed to have broken up in the Martian atmosphere.

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The USS Vincennes is erroneously referred to as the "US Vicennes."

Thanks to Chuck Howell for the feedback.

Page 178, the example of using FTP to download netcat: The last line, after "echo get nc.exe>>ftp.txt" should be "echo exit>>ftp.txt"

Page 180, the headline that starts with "Attack Example: Injection and..." : TFTP means Trivial File Transfer Protocol, and not "Tiny FTP."

Page 185, the paragraph that starts with "Consider what happens...": The example in the previous paragraph showed DNS name "server.exploited.com" turned to file "server.exploited.com.LOG", therefore the DNS name "server.exploited/../../../../NIDS/Events" will create the file "server.exploited/../../../../NIDS/Events.LOG" - there's no need to add the ".LOG" suffix to the DNS name.

Page 206, the line that starts with "KP2-44-DICRIMINATOR..." should start with "KP2-44-DISCRIMINATOR...". An "S" is missing.

Thanks to Jonathan Bokovza for ferreting out these errors.