Seven Deadliest Network Attacks

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Elsevier, 2 giu 2010 - 176 pagine

Seven Deadliest Network Attacks identifies seven classes of network attacks and discusses how the attack works, including tools to accomplish the attack, the risks of the attack, and how to defend against the attack. This book pinpoints the most dangerous hacks and exploits specific to networks, laying out the anatomy of these attacks including how to make your system more secure. You will discover the best ways to defend against these vicious hacks with step-by-step instruction and learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable.

The book consists of seven chapters that deal with the following attacks: denial of service; war dialing; penetration testing; protocol tunneling; spanning tree attacks; man-in-the-middle; and password replay. These attacks are not mutually exclusive and were chosen because they help illustrate different aspects of network security. The principles on which they rely are unlikely to vanish any time soon, and they allow for the possibility of gaining something of interest to the attacker, from money to high-value data. This book is intended to provide practical, usable information. However, the world of network security is evolving very rapidly, and the attack that works today may (hopefully) not work tomorrow. It is more important, then, to understand the principles on which the attacks and exploits are based in order to properly plan either a network attack or a network defense.

Seven Deadliest Network Attacks will appeal to information security professionals of all levels, network admins, and recreational hackers.

  • Knowledge is power, find out about the most dominant attacks currently waging war on computers and networks globally
  • Discover the best ways to defend against these vicious attacks; step-by-step instruction shows you how
  • Institute countermeasures, don’t be caught defenseless again, and learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable
 

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Sommario

Chapter 1 Denial of Service
1
Chapter 2 War Dialing
23
Chapter 3 Penetration Testing
41
Chapter 4 Protocol Tunneling
59
Chapter 5 Spanning Tree Attacks
75
Chapter 6 ManintheMiddle
101
Chapter 7 Password Replay
121
Index
139
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Seven Deadliest Network Attacks
Stacy J. Prowell,Rob Kraus,Mike Borkin
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Alice allow attackers ARP poisoning attacker’s authentication bandwidth block botnet BPDU frames Cain & Abel capture chapter Cisco client community strings configuration connect create credentials DDoS attack defense Denial of Service detect devices disable e-mail encrypted EtherApe Ethernet example exploit Figure firewall hackers hardware home machine host ICMP identify implemented install interface Internet intruder IP address login MAC address malicious malware Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Metasploit MITM attacks modems monitor Nessus network administrators network attack network security network traffic open-source organization packets Password Replay payload penetration testing penetration testing tools perform port protocol tunneling proxy replay attacks request root bridge router scan scenario server Seven Deadliest SNMP Spanning Tree Attacks Spanning Tree Protocol spoofing steganography switch target tcpdump telephone numbers testers THC-SCAN threats tion type of attack victim vulnerabilities war dialing Windows wireless network Wireshark worm

Informazioni sull'autore (2010)

Stacy Prowell is a senior member of the CERT technical staff, and chief scientist of STAR*Lab. He is an expert in the function-theoretic foundations of software, and is currently conducting research and development for function extraction technology. Prowell has managed both commercial and academic software development projects and consulted on design, development, and testing of applications ranging from consumer electronics to medical scanners, from small embedded real-time systems to very large distributed applications. Prior to joining the SEI in 2005, Prowell was a research professor at the University of Tennessee. To support wider adoption of rigorous methods in industry, he started the Experimentation, Simulation, and Prototyping (ESP) project at the University of Tennessee, which develops software libraries and tools to support application of model-based testing and sequence-based specification. Software developed by this program is in use by over 30 organizations. Prior to working at the university, he served as a consultant in the software industry. His research interests include rigorous software specification methods, automated statistical testing, and function-theoretic analysis of program behavior. Prowell holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee and is a member of the ACM, IEEE, and Sigma Xi.

Rob Kraus (CISSP, C|EH, MCSE) is a Senior Security Consultant for Solutionary, Inc. Rob is responsible for organizing customer requirements, on-site project management and client support while ensuring quality and timeliness of Solutionary's products and services. Rob was previously a Remote Security Services Supervisor with Digital Defense, Inc. He performed offensive-based security assessments consisting of penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, social engineering, wireless and VoIP penetration testing, web application penetration tests and vulnerability research. As a supervisor, Rob was also responsible for leading and managing a team of penetration testers who performed assessment services for Digital Defense's customers. Rob's background also includes contracting as a security analyst for AT&T during the early stages of the AT&T U-verse service as well as provisioning, optimizing, and testing OC-192 fiber-optic networks while employed with Nortel Networks. Rob also speaks at information security conferences and universities in an effort to keep the information security community informed of current security trends and attack methodologies.

Mike Borkin (MCSE, GSEC Gold) is an internationally recognized author and speaker in the area of IT security where he focuses mostly on data protection strategies, Microsoft security, and security architecture/engineering best practices. In addition to contributing articles related to security to magazines and speaking engagements for groups such as SANS and The Open Group in both the US and Europe, Mike is also the Co-Author of Vista Security for Dummies.

Informazioni bibliografiche

TitoloSeven Deadliest Network Attacks
Syngress seven deadliest attacks series
AutoriStacy Prowell, Rob Kraus, Mike Borkin
EditoreElsevier, 2010
ISBN1597495506, 9781597495509
Lunghezza176 pagine
  
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