Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking

by Fadia, Ankit

• ISBN13: 9781931841726
• ISBN10: 1931841721
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-02
• Publisher: Cengage Learning Ptr

Summary

The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking 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 discussion on the nature of file encryption, firewalls, and viruses and shows how users can make their systems more secure.

Author Biography

At 16 years old, Ankit Fadia is already an established hacking authority. He is the founder of the popular Web site Hacking Truths, http://hackingtruths.box.sk, and has been featured in numerous media outlets including the New York Times, ZDNet, and Security Focus. Ankit has written many tutorials on hacking and is a regular contributor to the Indian magazine PCQuest and to India's national newspaper the Hindustan Times

Table of Contents

Introduction	xxi
So who is a Hacker Anyway?	1	(6)
Finding Information on the Net	7	(6)
Hacking Windows	13	(20)
Advanced Windows Hacking	33	(36)
Getting your Hands Wet: Net Tools I	69	(24)
Exploring Remote Systems Net Tools II	93	(40)
A Guide for Web hackers Net Tools III	133	(58)
Getting Past the Password	191	(124)
Batch File Programming	315	(26)
TCP/IP: A Mammoth Description	341	(68)
Hacking Concepts: A Deeper Approach	409	(22)
How Does a Virus Work? Part I	431	(54)
How Does a Virus Work? Part II	485	(38)
The Perl Manual	523	(32)
The C Programming Language	555	(16)
Nasty Scripts and Hostile Applets	571	(126)
A Some More Net Tools	697	(8)
Index	705