Overview
The Next Generation Hacker Book
The step-by-step guide to defending against hacker intrusions!
- Defend against today's most powerful hacker attacks!
- Hands-on, step-by-step techniques for UNIX/Linux and Windows environments
- Intrusion detection: New evasion techniques—and countermeasures
- By the security expert who demonstrated hacking to the U.S. Senate!
This easy-to-use, step-by-step guide will empower network and system administrators to defend their information and computing assets—whether or not they have security experience. In Counter Hack, leading network security expert Edward Skoudis presents comprehensive, insider's explanations of today's most destructive hacker tools and tactics-and specific, proven countermeasures for both UNIX and Windows environments. Skoudis covers all this and more:
- Know your adversary: from script kiddies to elite attackers
- A hacker's view of networks, TCP/IP protocols, and their vulnerabilities
- Five phases of hacking: reconnaissance, scanning, gaining access, maintaining access, and preventing detection
- The most dangerous and widespread attack scenarios—explained in depth
- Key hacker tools: port scanners, firewall scanners, sniffers, session hijackers, RootKits, and more
- How hackers build elegant attacks from simple building blocks
- Detecting and preventing IP spoofing, covert channels, denial of service attacks, and other key attacks
- How hackers cover their tracks—and how you can uncover their handiwork
- A preview ocountermeasures
Whatever your role in protecting network infrastructure and data, Counter Hack delivers proven solutions you can implement right now—and long-term strategies that will improve security for years to come.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewWhen Ed Skoudis isn't explaining hacking techniques to U.S. Senate committees, he's busy helping major companies identify and resolve their most serious enterprise security vulnerabilities. And when he's not doing that, he's helping you. How, pray tell? By writing Counter Hack.
In this relentlessly hands-on book, Skoudis begins by identifying the most dangerous cracking tools -- the ones that are most popular and are causing the most damage. Then, he shows sysadmins exactly how to protect themselves from the havoc these tools can wreak in the wrong hands. There are techniques that respond to war dialers, port scanners, firewall scanners, sniffers, and session hijackers -- as well as practical countermeasures for IP spoofing, IP fragmentation, and even (to the extent possible) denial of service attacks.
Skoudis' solutions apply to UNIX and Windows environments, and are presented in relatively easy, step-by-step formats that ought to be usable by any competent sysadmin. There are five elements to cracking: reconnaissance and targeting, identifying vulnerabilities; gaining access; staying in once you're in, and avoiding detection. Unlike many security books, this one covers all five. It should go a long way towards helping you sleep at night. (Bill Camarda)
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced software, computing, and networking products and services. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.
Infrastructure network consultant Skoudis provides a step-by-step guide that will help network and system administrators defend their information and computing assets, whether or not they have had security experience. The 13 chapters discuss a hacker's view of networks, TCP/IP protocols, and their vulnerabilities; five phases of hacking (reconnaissance, scanning, gaining and maintaining access, and preventing detection); the most dangerous and widespread attack scenarios; key hacker tools and how they work to build elegant attacks from simple building blocks; detecting and preventing IP spoofing, covert channels, denial of service, and other key attacks; how to uncover the handiwork of hackers; and a preview of tomorrow's hacker tools, attacks, and countermeasures. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)