Hacking Exposed

In today's round-the-clock,hyper-connected,all-digital economy,computer security is everyone's business. Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions,Second Edition brings even more in-depth insight into how hackers infiltrate e-business,and how they can be stopped. Security insiders Stuart McClure,Joel Scambray,and George Kurtz present more than 220 all-new pages of technical detail and case studies in an easy-to-follow style. The world of Internet security moves even faster than the digital economy,and all of the brand-new tools and techniques that have surfaced since the publication of the best-selling first edition are covered here. Use the real-world countermeasures in this one-of-a-kind volume to plug the holes in your network today—before they end up in the headlines tomorrow.

New and Updated Material: Brand new "Hacking the Internet User" chapter covers insidious Internet client attacks against web browsers,email software,and active content,including the vicious new Outlook email date field buffer overflow and ILOVEYOU worms.

A huge new chapter on Windows 2000 attacks and countermeasures covers offline password database attacks and Encrypting File System (EFS) vulnerabilities.

Coverage of all the new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tools and techniques that almost broke down the Internet in February 2000 (Trinoo,TFN2K,Stacheldraht).

Significantly updated e-commerce hacking methodologies including new IIS and Cold Fusion vulnerabilities.

A revised and updated dial-up chapter with new material onPBX and voicemail system hacking.

New network discovery tools and techniques,including an updated section on Windows-based scanners,how to carry out eavesdropping attacks on switched networks using ARP redirection,and RIP spoofing attacks.

Coverage of new back doors and forensic techniques,including defenses against Win9x back doors like Sub7.

Updated coverage of security attacks against Windows 9x,Windows Me,Windows 2000,Windows NT,UNIX,Linux,NetWare,and dozens of other platforms,with appropriate countermeasures.

New material!

Contains more than 200 new pages of what customers want - in depth insight into how hackers infiltrate networks, and strategies to stop them. Also, brand new forword written by a prominent security expert.

Hot topic - computer security is a huge topic in today's super-connected all-digital economy.

Expert authors - writers of Security Watch column for InfoWorld magazine and co-founders of Foundstone, Inc. - a consulting and training company.

Electronic Review of Computer Books - Gregory V. Wilson

Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, by Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, and George Kurtz, really should have been called "Hacking Surveyed." Either way, it's a good reference for both programmers and system administrators. The authors' aim is to describe every major network security hole in every widely used operating system, and to explain what can be done to plug each one. Want to know about Windows 98 Trojans? Or brute force attacks against rsh on UNIX? This book describes these, and many others, and includes links (some of them already 404'd) to software and other reference materials. I expect that only the truly hardcore (on either side of the fence) will read the whole book, but anyone responsible for system security will find plenty to browse through.

Joel Scambray is Managing Principal, Stuart McClure is President/CTO, and George Kurtz is CEO of Foundstone Inc., a premier security consulting and training company. They have promoted information system security over a combined fifteen years of consulting and training for Fortune 500 companies, and in forums ranging from Stuart and Joel's weekly "Security Watch" column for InfoWorld, to George's renowned Black Hat Conference presentations.