Thursday, August 27, 2009

Hacking Exposed:Network Security Secrets and Solutions

I'm still reading this Hacking Exposed 6th Edition book. I hope i will finish this week.
Hacking Exposed established this entire genre of books. Now in its 6th (and 10th anniversary) edition, and having sold millions of copies throughout the world, the book remains the #1 best-selling computer security book in the world and it is still just as useful and valuable as it ever was. Kurtz, McClure, and Scambray have once again update this highly resected title to include the latest and greatest in attacks and exploits, as well as the cutting edge countermeasures and security controls you can implement to protect your PC or your network.
New and updated material:

-New chapter on hacking hardware, including lock bumping, access card cloning, RFID hacks, USB U3 exploits, and Bluetooth device hijacking
-Updated Windows attacks and countermeasures, including new Vista and Server 2008 vulnerabilities and Metasploit exploits
-The latest UNIX Trojan and rootkit techniques and dangling pointer and input validation exploits
-New wireless and RFID security tools, including multilayered encryption and gateways
-All-new tracerouting and eavesdropping techniques used to target network hardware and Cisco devices
-Updated DoS, man-in-the-middle, DNS poisoning, and buffer overflow coverage
-VPN and VoIP exploits, including Google and TFTP tricks, SIP flooding, and IPsec hacking
-Fully updated chapters on hacking the Internet user, web hacking, and securing code

Table of contents

Part I: Casing the Establishment
Chapter 1. Footprinting
Chapter 2. Scanning
Chapter 3. Enumeration
Part II: System Hacking
Chapter 4. Hacking Windows
Chapter 5. Hacking Unix
Part III: Infrastructure Hacking
Chapter 6. Remote Connectivityand VoIP Hacking
Chapter 7. Network Devices
Chapter 8. Wireless Hacking
Chapter 9. Hacking Hardware
Part IV: Application and Data Hacking
Chapter 10. Hacking Code
Chapter 11. Web Hacking
Chapter 12. Hacking the Internet User
Part V: Appendixes
Appendix A. Ports
Appendix B. Top 14 Security Vulnerabilities
Appendix C. Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
Index

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