Hacking Exposed : Network Security Secrets and Solutions, Fourth Edition

by McClure, Stuart; Scambray, Joel; Kurtz, George

• ISBN13: 9780072227420
• ISBN10: 0072227427
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-21
• Publisher: MCG

Summary

This brand-new edition of the best-selling security book covers all the latest hacks and countermeasures and includes a bonus DVD with the authors' famous "Hacking Exposed Live" presentation!

Author Biography

Stuart McClure is the co-author of all four editions of Hacking Exposed as well as Hacking Exposed Windows 2000. Stuart co-authored "Security Watch," a weekly column in InfoWorld addressing topical security issues, exploits, and vulnerabilities. He is the President/CTO of Foundstone, Inc. Prior to co-founding Foundstone, Stuart was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young's Security Profiling Services Group, responsible for project management, attack and penetration reviews, and technology evaluations. Stuart trains Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking course, and Hacking Exposed Live for conferences such as Networld + InterOp, Black Hat, RSA, CSI, among others.

Joel Scambray, CISSP is the co-author of all four editions of Hacking Exposed as well as Hacking Exposed Web Applications and Hacking Exposed Windows 2000. Joel co-authored "Security Watch," a weekly column in InfoWorld. Joel is the author of Microsoft's "Ask Us About…Security" Monthly Column. He also taught Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking Windows course.

George Kurtz, CISSP is the co-author of all four editions of Hacking Exposed as well as Hacking Exposed Linux. He is the CEO of Foundstone, a cutting edge security solutions provider. Mr. Kurtz has significant experience with intrusion detection and firewall technologies, incident response procedures, and remote access solutions. As CEO and co-founder of Foundstone, Mr. Kurtz provides a unique combination of business acumen and technical security know-how.

Table of Contents

Part I: Casing the Establishment

Ch. 1: Footprinting

Ch. 2: Scanning

Ch. 3: Enumeration

Part II: System Hacking

Ch. 4: Hacking Windows 95/98, ME, & Windows XP

Ch. 5: Hacking Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows.NET Server

Ch. 6: Novell NetWare Hacking

Ch. 7: Hacking Unix/Linux (revised to include new coverage of Apache)

Ch. 8: Database Hacking

Part III: Network Hacking

Ch. 9: Dial-up, PBX, Voicemail, and VPN Hacking

Ch. 10: Network Devices & Wireless Security

Ch. 11: Firewalls

Ch. 12: Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks

Part IV: Software Hacking

Ch. 13: Remote Control Insecurities

Ch. 14: Advanced Techniques

Ch. 15: Web Hacking

Ch. 16: Hacking the Internet User

Part V: Appendixes

Appendix A: Ports

Appendix B: Top 14 Security Vulnerabilities

Appendix C: About the Companion Web Site & CD-ROM