ADVISORY/Foundstone Executives Conduct All Day Seminar At Upcoming Networld+Interop Conference.

News/Assignment Editors and High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for May 8 (Wed.)

NetWorld+Interop 2002 Las Vegas 

WHO:     Foundstone, the premier provider of security assessments and
         vulnerability protection. Executives conducting the session
         include George Kurtz, CEO and Stuart McClure, President and
         CTO.

Speaker  George Kurtz, Foundstone CEO
Bios:    As an internationally recognized security expert and
         entrepreneur, Kurtz is a frequent speaker at major industry
         conferences. He co-authored the best selling, "Hacking
         Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions" as well
         as "Hacking Linux Exposed" and regularly contributes to
         leading industry publications.

         Stuart McClure, Foundstone President and CTO
         McClure is a successful security author, speaker, and teacher
         whose writings have been translated into numerous languages
         worldwide.  McClure is the lead author of the best-selling
         security book "Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and
         Solutions" published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill. Hacking Exposed
         has been translated into 19 languages, and has received
         critical acclaim around the world. In addition, Hacking
         Exposed was ranked the no. 4 computer book sold on Amazon in
         2001, positioning it as the best selling security book ever
         sold.

WHAT:    Hacking Exposed, Live!

WHEN:    May 6, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Pacific

WHERE:   N+I Conference, Las Vegas

WHY:     Is your e-commerce infrastructure up to meeting the challenge
         of malicious marauders? This workshop presents the methods
         used by today's hackers to gain access to your internal
         networks and critical data. The class demonstrates a typical
         attack, exploiting both well-known and little-known
         vulnerabilities that circumvent traditional security
         mechanisms. During the attack, the workshop highlights
         opportunities to better identify and secure hosts and
         networks against each exploit.

Tutorial Outline

-- Footprinting your e-commerce site

-- Port scanning

-- Banner grabbing

-- Exploiting common configuration and design weaknesses in UNIX and NT

-- Exploiting common services

-- Enumerating information from UNIX and NT hosts

-- Logging onto NT using only the password hash

-- Hacking Windows 2000

-- Bypassing routers and firewall filtering

-- Using source ports

-- Leveraging port redirection

-- 101 uses for Netcat

-- Milk and cookies: hacking e-commerce

-- Linking vulnerabilities for maximum exploitation

Who Should Attend

Network and system administrators, security administrators and technical auditors

Textbook: "Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions," third edition, Joel Scambray, Stuart McClure, George Kurtz, McGraw-Hill, 2000.