Hackers' profiles, motivations, tricks, techniques, tools, methodologies, and strategies are revealed in this guide. It also discusses known system vulnerabilities and details how to mount countermeasures fast.
Autorentext
Dave Aitel is the founder of Immunity, Inc. (www.immunitysec.com), with prior experience at both private industry security consulting companies and the National Security Agency. His tools, SPIKE and SPIKE Proxy, are widely regarded as the best black box application assessment tools available.
Susan Young has worked in the security field for the past seven years, four of which have been spent in the security consulting arena, helping clients design and implement secure networks, training on security technologies, and conducting security assessments and penetration tests of client system or network defenses (so-called ethical hacking). Her experience has included consulting work in the defense sector and the financial industry, as well as time spent evaluating and deconstructing various security products. She currently works as a senior security consultant in the Boston area security practice of International Network Services (INS).
Klappentext
The Hacker's Handbook: The Strategy Behind Breaking Into and Defending Networks, moves ahead of the pack of books about digital security by revealing the technical aspects of hacking that are least understood by network administrators. This is accomplished by analyzing subjects through a hacking/security dichotomy that details hacking maneuv
Inhalt
1. Introduction: The Chess Game, PART I: FOUNDATION MATERIAL, 2. Case Study in Subversion, 3. Know Your Opponent, 4. Anatomy of an Attack, 5. Your Defensive Arsenal, 6. Programming, 7. IP and Layer 2 Protocols, 8. The Protocols, PART II: SYSTEM AND NETWORK PENETRATION, 9. Domain Name System (DNS), 10. Directory Services, 11. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), 12. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), 13. Database Hacking and Security, 14. Malware and Viruses, 15. Network Hardware, PART III: CONSOLIDATION, 16. Consolidating Gains, 17. After the Fall, 18. Conclusion, Index