Hacking Step-By-Step Manual
While you’re reading this, a hacker could be prying and spying
his way into your company’s IT systems, sabotaging your operations,
stealing confidential information, shutting down your Web site,
or wreaking havoc in other diabolical ways. Hackers helps you hack
into a hacker’s mindset and take security precautions to help
you avoid a hack attack. It outlines computer hacker tricks and
techniques you can use to assess the security of your own
information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix
them before malicious and criminal hackers can exploit them.
It covers:
Hacking methodology and researching public information to see what
a hacker can quickly learn about your operations
Social engineering (how hackers manipulate employees to gain
information and access), physical security, and password
vulnerabilities
Network infrastructure, including port scanners, SNMP scanning,
banner grabbing, scanning, and wireless LAN vulnerabilities
Operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Novell NetWare
Application hacking, including malware (Trojan horses, viruses,
worms, rootkits, logic bombs, and more), e-mail and instant
messaging, and Web applications
Tests, tools (commercial, shareware, and freeware), and
techniques that offer the most bang for your ethical hacking buck
With this guide you can develop and implement a comprehensive security
assessment plan, get essential support from management, test
your system for vulnerabilities, take countermeasures, and protect
your network infrastructure. You discover how to beat hackers
at their own game, with:
A hacking toolkit, including War dialing software, password
cracking software, network scanning software, network vulnerability
assessment software, a network analyzer, a Web application assessment
tool, and more
All kinds of countermeasures and ways to plug security holes
A list of more than 100 security sites, tools, and resources
Ethical hacking helps you fight hacking with hacking, pinpoint
security flaws within your systems, and implement countermeasures.
Complete with tons of screen shots, step-by-step instructions
for some countermeasures, and actual case studies from IT security
professionals, this is an invaluable guide, whether you’re an
Internet security professional, part of a penetration-testing
team, or in charge of IT security for a large or small business.
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