Hack Proofing Your Network 2nd edition

mihnutzu · August 11, 2006

Called “a bold, unsparing tour of information that never swerves from the practical,” this updated and considerably expanded bestseller will quickly achieve top shelf placement on your information security bookshelf. Hack Proofing Your Network, Second Edition shows you that the only way to stop a hacker is to think like one.

1. Know the Laws of Security

Review the authors’ guidelines for discovering security problems when reviewing or designing a system.

2. Learn the Seven Categories of Attack

See how denial of service, information leakage, regular file access, misinformation, special file/database access, remote arbitrary code execution, and elevation of privileges can hurt you!

3. Prevent Diffing

See how the comparison of a program, library, or file before and after some action can affect your network data.

4. Learn about Standard Cryptographic Algorithms

See how secure your encrypted files and passwords really are.

5. Understand Format String Vulnerabilities

Learn about one of the newest additions to the hacker’s bag of tricks.

6. Read About Session Hijacking Types

Review TCP session hijacking, ARP attacks, route table modification, UDP hijacking, and man-in-the-middle attacks.

7. Understand the Strategic Constraints of Tunnel Design

Create tunnels that are end-to-end secure and learn how to use authentication in OpenSSH.

8. Hack Proof Your Hardware

Design products with tamper mechanisms: resistance, evidence, detection, and response.