Hacker Attack and Defense

Author: McAuliffe
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: The latest work from the author of the best-selling "Exploiting the Internet," with a preface and recommendation by William C. Boni, Chief Information Security Officer at Motorola! This book is filled with knowledge and refined experience from the world's top white-hat hackers, who are trusted consultants at Foundstone. It presents a virtual strategic plan to help you identify and eliminate risks that could bring down your website. The book covers network languages and protocols, web database servers, payment systems, shopping cart systems, and URL key vulnerabilities. It includes the following content: website tampering; stealing from electronic stores; database access and web applications; how to secure Java servers; impersonation and session hijacking; buffer overflows: the most malicious attack methods; automated attack tools and worms. The appendix lists web and database ports, remote command execution, and source code.