Hackers Beware – Defending Your Network From The Wiley Hacker

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Introduction

1. Introduction The Golden Age of Hacking How Bad Is the Problem? What Are Companies Doing? What Should Companies Be Doing? Defense in Depth Purpose of This Book Legal Stuff What’s Covered In This Book Summary

2. How and Why Hackers Do It What Is an Exploit? The Attacker’s Process The Types of Attacks Categories of Exploits Routes Attackers Use to Get In Goals Attackers Try to Achieve Summary

3. Information Gathering Steps for Gathering Information Information Gathering Summary Red Teaming Summary

4. Spoofing Why Spoof? Types of Spoofing Summary

5. Session Hijacking Spoofing versus Hijacking Types of Session Hijacking TCP/IP Concepts Detailed Description of Session Hijacking ACK Storms Programs That Perform Hijacking Dangers Posed by Hijacking Protecting Against Session Hijacking Summary

6. Denial of Service Attacks What Is a Denial of Service Attack? What Is a Distributed Denial of Service Attack? Why Are They Difficult to Protect Against? Types of Denial of Service Attacks Tools for Running DOS Attacks Tools for Running DDOS Attacks Preventing Denial of Service Attacks Preventing Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Summary

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7. Buffer Overflow Attacks What Is a Buffer Overflow? How Do Buffer Overflows Work? Types of Buffer Overflow Attacks Why Are So Many Programs Vulnerable? Sample Buffer Overflow Protecting Our Sample Application Ten Buffer Overflow Attacks Protection Against Buffer Overflow Attacks Summary

8. Password Security Typical Attack The Current State of Passwords History of Passwords Future of Passwords Password Management Password Attacks Summary

9. Microsoft NT Password Crackers Where Are Passwords Stored in NT? How Does NT Encrypt Passwords? All Passwords Can Be Cracked (NT Just Makes It Easier) NT Password-Cracking Programs Comparison Extracting Password Hashes Protecting Against NT Password Crackers Summary

10. UNIX Password Crackers Where Are the Passwords Stored in UNIX? How Does UNIX Encrypt Passwords? UNIX Password-Cracking Programs Comparison Protecting Against UNIX Password Crackers Summary

11. Fundamentals of Microsoft NT Overview of NT Security Availability of Source Code NT Fundamentals Summary

12. Specific Exploits for NT Exploits for NT Summary

13. Fundamentals of UNIX Linux Vulnerable Areas of UNIX UNIX Fundamentals Summary

14. Specific Exploits for UNIX

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