Authors: Max Forge.
Paperback, 104 pages
Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited
Publication Date: 1999-04

Authors: Nitesh Dhanjani. Justin Clarke.
Paperback, 340 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 2005-04-04


Reviews :

    If you're an advanced security professional, then you know that the battle to protect online privacy continues to rage on. Security chat rooms, especially, are resounding with calls for vendors to take more responsibility to release products that are more secure. In fact, with all the information and code that is passed on a daily basis, it's a fight that may never end. Fortunately, there are a number of open source security tools that give you a leg up in the battle. Often a security tool does exactly what you want, right out of the box. More frequently, you need to customize the tool to fit the needs of your network structure. Network Security Tools shows experienced administrators how to modify, customize, and extend popular open source security tools such as Nikto, Ettercap, and Nessus. This concise, high-end guide discusses the common customizations and extensions for these tools, then shows you how to write even more specialized attack and penetration reviews that are suited to your unique network environment. It also explains how tools like port scanners, packet injectors, network sniffers, and web assessment tools function. Some of the topics covered include:

• Writing your own network sniffers and packet injection tools
• Writing plugins for Nessus, Ettercap, and Nikto
• Developing exploits for Metasploit
• Code analysis for web applications
• Writing kernel modules for security applications, and understanding rootkits

While many books on security are either tediously academic or overly sensational, Network Security Tools takes an even-handed and accessible approach that will let you quickly review the problem and implement new, practical solutions--without reinventing the wheel. In an age when security is critical, Network Security Tools is the resource you want at your side when locking down your network....

Authors: Andrew Whitaker. Keatron Evans. Jack B. Voth.
Hardcover, 330 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2009-02-13
Edition: 1

Authors: Michael Davis.
Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2009-05-06
Edition: 1

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The bestselling series now covers these dangerous and evolving computer security threats

Providing real-world attacks and detailed countermeasures, this new volume is a comprehensive guide to the Andquot;black artAndquot; of malware and rootkits. You will learn how to identify and defend against malicious software and dangerous hidden scripts. The book includes practical examples, case studies, and risk ratings--all in the bestselling Hacking Exposed format.

Hacking Exposed: Malware Andamp; Rootkits walks you through the processes of analyzing malicious software from start to finish. The book covers different kinds of malware and rootkits, methods of infection, and the latest detection and prevention technologies.

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Authors: Jelena Mirkovic. Sven Dietrich. David Dittrich. Peter Reiher.
Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication Date: 2005-01-09

Authors: Douglas Thomas.
Hardcover, 266 pages
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 2002-03


Reviews :

    Demonized by governments and the media as criminals, glorified within their own subculture as outlaws, hackers have played a major role in the short history of computers and digital culture-and have continually defied our assumptions about technology and secrecy through both legal and illicit means. In Hacker Culture, Douglas Thomas provides an in-depth history of this important and fascinating subculture, contrasting mainstream images of hackers with a detailed firsthand account of the computer underground.

Programmers in the 1950s and '60s-"old school" hackers-challenged existing paradigms of computer science. In the 1960s and '70s, hacker subcultures flourished at computer labs on university campuses, making possible the technological revolution of the next decade. Meanwhile, on the streets, computer enthusiasts devised ingenious ways to penetrate AT&T, the Department of Defense, and other corporate entities in order to play pranks (and make free long-distance telephone calls). In the 1980s and '90s, some hackers organized to fight for such causes as open source coding while others wreaked havoc with corporate Web sites.

Even as novels and films (Neuromancer, WarGames, Hackers, and The Matrix) mythologized these "new school" hackers, destructive computer viruses like "Melissa" prompted the passage of stringent antihacking laws around the world. Addressing such issues as the commodification of the hacker ethos by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, the high-profile arrests of prominent hackers, and conflicting self-images among hackers themselves, Thomas finds that popular hacker stereotypes reflect the public's anxieties about the information age far more than they do the reality of hacking.

Douglas Thomas is associate professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor (with Brian D. Loader) of Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security, and Surveillance in the Information Age (2000)....

Authors: Kieren McCarthy.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Quercus
Publication Date: 2007-05-17


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Paperback, 300 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2001-10-18


Reviews :

    "Hacker's Challenge" will consist of 20-25 hacking scenarios followed by the solution for each. The challenges/chapters are organized by increasing levels of complexity, and covers many hot topics, including Web content, VPNs, Denial of Service, wireless issues, e-commerce, email attacks and more. It includes input from top names in the industry - in addition to Mike Schiffman, consultants from the top security firms, such as Guardent, Foundstone, @Stake, SecurityFocus.com, In-Q-Tel, Arbor Networks, LoudCloud and more contribute their expertise. It is intended for a broad audience - "Hacker's Challenge" is for anyone who wants to solve the latest hacking challenges. It is a great companion to "Hacking Exposed" - an entire book of hands-on scenarios that compliment the "Hacking Exposed" text....

    Mike Schiffman has hit upon a great formula for Hacker's Challenge. Rather than try to research, fully understand, and adequately explain attacks that have taken place on other people's networks--the approach taken by too many writers of books about computer security--Schiffman lets network administrators and security experts tell their stories first-hand. This is good. What's better is that Schiffman has edited each of their war stories into two sections: one that presents the observations the sysadmin or security consultant made at the time of the attack, and another (in a separate part of the book) that ties the clues together and explains exactly what was going on. The challenge in the title is for you to figure out what the bad guys were doing--and how best to stop them--before looking at the printed solution. Let's call this book what it is: an Encyclopedia Brown book for people with an interest in network security.

It doesn't really matter, from a value-for-money standpoint, whether your skills are up to the challenge or not. The accounts of intrusions--these are no-kidding, real-life attacks that you can probably learn from, by the way--are written like chapters from a novel (though log file listings, network diagrams, and performance graphs appear alongside the narrative text). Recall every time you've seen a movie or read a book with computer scenes so technically inaccurate they made you wish for a writer with a clue. Schiffman and Hacker's Challenge is what you wished for. --David Wall

Topics covered: The sorts of attacks that black-hat hackers (everyone from script kiddies to accomplished baddies) launch against Internet-linked computers and networks. Everything is presented from the perspective of the defenders--i.e., the network administrators--who have to look at log files and process activity to figure out what's going on....

Authors: Edward Waltz.
Hardcover, 397 pages
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Publication Date: 1998-08


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Here's a systems engineering-level introduction to the growing field of Information Warfare (IW) -- the battlefield where information is both target and weapon. This book provides an overview of rapidly emerging threats to commercial, civil, and military information systems -- and shows how these threats can be identified and systems protected. This is the first book to detail the component principles, technologies, and tactics critical to success in the three key areas of IW: Information Dominance, Information Defense, and Information Offense....

Authors: Ankit Fadia.
Paperback, 752 pages
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Publication Date: 2002-02-02
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Hackers. That elusive class of computer criminals who break into systems, release viruses, and deface Web sites, right? Wrong! While such computer criminals have helped shape the typical definition of a hacker, not all hackers are out to wreak havoc. There are ethical hackers who crack a system for the sheer challenge of doing so-not to cause damage or destruction. In fact, they often lend a hand to system administrators by notifying them of the loopholes in their system. This book is much more than a guide to hacking. For anyone interested in finding out how your fail-safe system was cracked and how you can better protect yourself, this book is a must-read. It contains helpful resources that you can reference to better protect your system from becoming the victim of attacks. It also includes discussions on the nature of file encryption, firewalls, and viruses and shows how users can make their systems more secure....