
GRAY HAT HACKING; THE ETHICAL HACKER'S HANDBOOK
McGraw-Hill Professional (Publisher)
Published on 16. January 2005
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Paperback/Softback
456 pages
978-0-07-225709-0 (ISBN)
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Description
Analyze your company's vulnerability to hacks with expert guidance from Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook. Discover advanced security tools and techniques such as fuzzing, reverse engineering, and binary scanning. Test systems using both passive and active vulnerability analysis. Learn to benefit from your role as a gray hat. Review ethical and legal issues and case studies. This unique resource provides leading-edge technical information being utilized by the top network engineers, security auditors, programmers, and vulnerability assessors. Plus, the book offers in-depth coverage of ethical disclosure and provides a practical course of action for those who find themselves in a "disclosure decision" position.
Reviews / Votes
Excerpts from review by Patrick Mueller ... a proficient work...offers a smorgasbord of topics geared towards moderate- and advanced-level practitioners...The authors touch on some deep technical issues, such as automated penetration testing and shellcode exploit construction...great command of the material...[authors] discuss a few refreshingly different topics -- such as vulnerability disclosure protocols -- that are hardly covered elsewhere. The authors did...deliver on their ethical obligations to provide accurate countermeasures to attack methods they describe -- a true value to readers. ... security professionals will find value in the authors' formidable understanding of the material. Information Security Magazine 20050101More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
College/higher education
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ISBN-13
978-0-07-225709-0 (9780072257090)
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Persons
Shon Harris is the founder and CEO of Logical Security LLC, an information security consultant, a former engineer in the Air Forces Information Warfare unit, an instructor and an author. She has authored several international bestselling books on information security published by McGraw-Hill and Pearson which has sold over a million copies and have been translated into six languages. Ms. Harris authors academic textbooks, security articles for publication and is a technical editor for Information Security Magazine. Ms. Harris has consulted for a large number of organizations in every business sector (financial, medical, retail, entertainment, utility) and several U.S. government agencies over the last 18 years. Ms. Harris provides high-end, advanced and specialized consulting for organizations globally. She also works directly with law firms as a technical and expert witness on cases that range from patent infringement, criminal investigations, civil lawsuits and she specializes in cryptographic technologies. Ms. Harris has taught information security to a wide range of clients over the last 18 years, some of which have included; West Point, Microsoft, DHS, DoD, DoE, NSA, FBI, NASA, CDC, PWC, DISA, RSA, Visa, Intel, Cisco, Oracle, HP, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Shell, Verizon, Citi, BoA, HSBC, Morgan Stanley, Symantec, Warner Brothers, Bridgestone, American Express, etc. Ms. Harris was recognized as one of the top 25 women in the Information Security field by Information Security Magazine.
Content
Part I: Introduction to Ethical Disclosure Chapter 1: Ethics of Ethical Hacking Chapter 2: Ethical Hacking and the Legal System Chapter 3: Proper and Ethical Disclosure Part II: Penetration Testing and Tools Chapter 4: Pen-Testing Process Chapter 5: Beyond Hacking Exposed: Advanced Tools for Today's Hacker Chapter 6: Automated Penetration Testing Part III: Exploits Chapter 7: Programming Survival Skills Chapter 8: Basic Linux Exploits Chapter 9: Advance Linux Exploits Chapter 10: Writing Linux Shellcode Chapter 11: Writing a Basic Windows Exploit Part IV: Vulnerability Analysis Chapter 12: Passive Analysis Chapter 13: Advanced Reverse Engineering Chapter 14: From Vulnerability to Exploit Chapter 15: Closing the Holes: Mitigation