Counter Hack: a Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses.Counter Hack: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses Prentice-Hall www.phptr.com $49.99 The author lays out, step by step, a guide to empower network and system administrators to defend their information and computing assets. The network security expert explores: knowing the culprit, from script kiddies to elite hackers; hackers' views of networks and TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. protocols; the hacking phases including reconnaissance, scanning, gaining access, maintaining access and preventing detection; the most dangerous and widespread attack situations; key hacker tools such as port scanners A port scanner is a piece of software designed to search a network host for open ports. This is often used by administrators to check the security of their networks and by hackers to compromise it. , sniffers, session hijackers, and RootKits; how hackers build elegant attacks from simple building blocks; how hackers cover their tracks. Ed Skoudis Ed Skoudis is a founder and senior security consultant for the Washington, D.C.-based network security consulting firm, Intelguardians Network Intelligence, LLC and a handler at the SANS' Internet Storm Center. outlines short-term proven solutions as well as long-term strategies to improve future security. He even gives a forecast of future hacker tools, attacks and countermeasures That form of military science that, by the employment of devices and/or techniques, has as its objective the impairment of the operational effectiveness of enemy activity. See also electronic warfare. . CIRCLE #553 FOR INFORMATION |
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