Practical Hacking Techniques and Countermeasures
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Author(s): M. D. Spivey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0849370574
Format: hardback + CD-ROM
737pp
Price: £44.99
Review Date: 05 January 2007
Review: This book provides students with a series of ‘labs’ structured around security, hacking techniques, and countermeasures. By understanding how an attack is conceptualized, formulated and performed, students can learn how to countermand such attacks. The author uses a virtual computer to illustrate how an attack is executed, including the script, compilation and results. The CD contains the same version of the tools used to create the book and enables the students to duplicate each lab. There are chapters on: banner identification; target enumeration; scanning; sniffing traffic; spoofing; brute force; vulnerability scanning; wireless; redirection; and denial of services (DOS).