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EBooks » Security
 In the Hacking Revealed course from LearnKey, system
administrators, network security analysts, and IT professionals, who
desire a broader understanding of security, learn how to protect their
networks from external attack. Expert instructor Dale Brice-Nash
explains what motivates hackers and examines hacker tools. He will
demonstrate potential system vulnerabilities, hacker methodologies,
current exploits, and effective approaches to risk management. At the
conclusion of this course, you’ll understand how to evaluate hacker
threats and how to avoid them. More info:
http://www.learnkey.com/store/images/HackingRevealed.asp  You're up late, banging away at your keyboard. You find the hole you
were looking for. Now you just find the right directory, copy a couple
files, back right out of the system, and erase your tracks. Within 15
minutes of finding a back door into the network, you've downloaded
transaction data for all credit card transactions within the last two
years. You'd think credit card processing companies would be more
secure than that.The
FBI should be busting down your door any minute now. But they won't.
You print out your keystroke logger info. You make a phone call. "I got
in." They don’t believe it. But when you deliver the keystroke log the
next day, they’re floored. They cut you a check, and offer you an even
bigger contract to help them fix the hole. Do things that should get you arrested – but get paid instead. Ethical Hacking is so cool.  In
these times of cheap storage and increased processing power and network
traffic, asking a question to “the log” becomes more and more similar
to executing a data-mining query. Most of the times “the log” does
contain the answers you are looking for, but they’re buried under
countless useless entries, and scattered across countless,
heterogeneous log files; as Jake Babbin, the lead author of this book,
elegantly puts it, the answers you are looking for are patterns in
chaos. And the news is that someone has to find those patterns. And it
might be you. The purpose of this book is to show you exactly how to do
that, tackling at the same time all the various problems pertinent to
log generation, storage, processing, and reporting.
Whether
or not you are the one charged with asking questions to “the log,”
after reading this book, you will agree that finding the patterns in
chaos is actually not as daunting as you would have believed, and that
creative solutions like the ones adopted by Jake will go a long way in
making your job—and your quest—easier. 
More info:
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