Gray Hat Hacking "The Ethical Hackers Handbook"

The Ethical Hackers Handbook, 3rd Edition

Thwart malicious network intrusion by using cutting-edge techniques for finding and fixing security flaws. Fully updated and expanded with nine new chapters, Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook, Third Edition details the most recent vulnerabilities and remedies along with legal disclosure methods. Learn from the experts how hackers target systems, defeat production schemes, write malicious code, and exploit flaws in Windows and Linux systems. Malware analysis, penetration testing, SCADA, VoIP, and Web security are also covered in this comprehensive resource.

 

• Develop and launch exploits using BackTrack and Metasploit
• Employ physical, social engineering, and insider attack techniques
• Build Perl, Python, and Ruby scripts that initiate stack buffer overflows
• Understand and prevent malicious content in Adobe, Office, and multimedia files
• Detect and block client-side, Web server, VoIP, and SCADA attacks
• Reverse engineer, fuzz, and decompile Windows and Linux software
• Develop SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and forgery exploits
• Trap malware and rootkits using honeypots and SandBoxes

User Review

This book was perfect for my class. I was able to find what I needed to help me through it.

Let me start by saying that my background is in enterprise configuration, system configuration and trouble-shooting, and information security policy. With that said I would heartily recommend that anyone working in the IT field would benefit from the lessons and skills which can be learned from this epitome of concise writing. Thank you for a wonderful read full of things which can never be learned to well

About the Author

Allen Harper, CISSP, a retired Marine Corps Major, is the president and founder of N2NetSecurity, Inc., and a faculty member for the Institute for Applied Network Security, He has worked as a security consultant for the Internal Revenue Service and for Logical Security, LLC.

Shon Harris, CISSP, MCSE, is the president of Logical Security, a security consultant, a former engineer in the Air Force’s Information Warfare unit, an instructor, and a bestselling author. She was recognized as one of the top 25 women in the Information Security field by Information Security Magazine.

Jonathan Ness is a software security engineer at Microsoft. He is a member of an Air National Guard unit where he leads network penetration tests against military facilities across the country and helps define the information warfare aggressor mission for the Air Force.

Chris Eagle is a senior lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. A computer engineer/scientist for 25 years, his research interests include computer network attack and defense, computer forensics, and reverse/anti-reverse engineering. He can often be found teaching at Black Hat or spending late nights working on capture the flag at Defcon

Gideon J. Lenkey, CISSP co-founded Ra Security Systems, a network security monitoring and consultancy. He has provided advanced training to the FBI and is the sitting president of the FBI's InfraGard chapter in New Jersey.

Terron Williams, NSA IAM-IEM, CEH, CSSLP, works for Elster Electricity as a Senior Test Engineer with his primary focus on Smart Grid

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