Hack proofing your internetwork : internet tradecraft

If you donвЂTMt hack your systems, who will? One of the reasons I put this book project together is that I believe security professionals should be hackers. In this case, by hackers, I mean people who are capable of defeating security measures. This book purports to teach people how to be hackers. In reality, most of the people who buy this book will do so because they want to protect their own systems and those of their employer. So, how can you prevent break-ins to your system if you donвЂTMt know how they are accomplished? How do you test your security measures? How do you make a judgment about how secure a new system is? When youвЂTMre through reading Hack Proofing Your Network, youвЂTMll understand terms like “smashing the stack,” “blind spoofing,” “building a backward bridge,” “steganography,” “buffer overflow” and youвЂTMll see why you need to worry about them. You will learn how to protect your servers from attacks by using a 5-step approach: 1. Planning 2. Network/Machine Recon 3. Research/Develop 4. Execute Attack and Achieve Goal 5. Cleanup And youвЂTMll understand the theory of hacking, how to fend off local and remote attacks, and how to report and evaluate security problems. The Only Way to Stop a Hacker Is to Think Like One. ---Ryan Russell, Hack Proofing Your Network Cover 1 Table of Contents 14 Foreword 26 Chapter 1 30 Chapter 2 72 Chapter 3 110 Chapter 4 154 Chapter 5 196 Chapter 6 244 Chapter 7 282 Chapter 8 360 Chapter 9 400 Chapter 10 432 Chapter 11 480 Chapter 12 528 Appendix 562 Index 590 Related Titles 625 Showing IT professionals how to make a security assessment of their own system, the theory here is backed by real-world examples from Unix, Windows and Cisco routers and switches. Before we launch into the meat of this book, we'd like a chance to explain ourselves. This title provides coverage of network security topics.