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 Security 5 is an entry level program for anyone interested in learning computer security fundamentals. The Security 5 program gives individuals basic security literacy skills to protect themselves from the daily threats of the Internet. It is an ideal program for knowledge workers and anyone wanting to gain working knowledge of networking and computer security. Credits to LiBiSO Hackers Beware: Defending Your Network from the Wily HackerBy: Eric Cole
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
ISBN: 0735710090
In Hackers Beware, Eric Cole succeeds in explaining how hackers break into computers, steal information, and deny services to machines' legitimate users. An intended side effect of his documentary efforts is a feeling for how network-connected computers should be configured for maximum resistance to attack. Cole, who works with the attack-monitoring SANS Institute as an instructor and security consultant, conveys to his readers specific knowledge of offensive and defensive weaponry as well as general familiarity with attack strategies and good security practices. Hackers Beware is a good primer and really earns its price by going into enough detail to enable readers to actually do something to make their resources safer. It also enables its readers to understand more specialized security texts, including Stephen Northcutt's fine Intrusion Signatures and Analysis. Cole's didactic style is largely conversational, embracing the fact that most computer exploits can be conveyed as stories about what hackers want and the steps they take to achieve their goals. He punctuates his prose passages with line drawings that clarify what gets passed among the machines involved in an attack, and pauses frequently to show programs' user interfaces and passages from their logs. Cole explains all the jargon he uses-a characteristic that alone distinguishes this book from many of its competitors. Topics covered: What motivates black-hat hackers, and the technical means they use to go about satisfying their ambitions. General attack strategies--spoofing, password cracking, social engineering, and buffer overflows, among others-are explained, and the tools used to carry them out are catalogued. The same goes for defensive tools and practices.  Author(s): Rick Lehtinen Publisher: O'Reilly Year: 2006 ISBN: 0-596-00669-1 File type: CHM Pages: 310 Size (for download): 1.63 MB This book is about computer securitywhat it is, where it came from, where it's going, and why we should care about it. It introduces the many different areas of security in clear and simple terms: access controls, worms and viruses, cryptography, firewalls, network and web security, biometric devices, and more. If you're at all interested in computer security or if computer security is a part of your job (whether you want it to be or not!), you should find this book useful. I've tried to give you the big picture and quite a few helpful details. By: Michael Gregg
Publisher: Que (April 7, 2006)
Publication date: 2006
ISBN: 0789735318
 The CEH certification shows knowledge of network penetration testing skills. The CEH exam takes three hours and 125 questions, requiring a broad and deep knowledge of network security issues. The CEH Exam Prep is the perfect solution for this challenge, giving you the solid, in-depth coverage you'll need to score higher on the exam.
Along with the most current CEH content, the book also contains the elements that make Exam Preps such strong study aides: comprehensive coverage of exam topics, end-of-chapter review, practice questions, Exam Alerts, Fast Facts, plus an entire practice exam to test your understanding of the material. The book also features MeasureUp's innovative testing software, to help you drill and practice your way to higher scores.
The EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) exam has become the leading ethical hacking certification available today. CEH is recognized by both employers and the industry as providing candidates with a solid foundation of hands-on security testing skills and knowledge. The CEH exam covers a broad range of security concepts to prepare candidates for the technologies that they are likely to be working with if they move into a role that requires hands-on security testing.
Let's talk some about what this book is. It offers you a one-stop shop for what you'll need to know to pass the exam. You do not have to take a class in addition to buying this book in order to pass the exam. However, depending on your personal study habits or learning style, you might benefit from buying this book and taking a class.
Exam Preps are meticulously crafted to give you the best possible learning experience for the particular characteristics of the technology covered and the actual certification exam. The instructional design implemented in the Exam Prep guides reflects the nature of the CEH certification exam. The Exam Preps provide you with the factual knowledge base you need for the exams, and then take it to the next level with exercises and exam questions that require you to engage in the analytic thinking needed to pass the CEH exam.
 This book is dedicated to the basics of hacking—methods of analyzing programs
using a debugger and disassembler. There is huge interest in this topic, but in
reality, there are very few programmers who have mastered these methods on a
professional level.
The majority of publications that touch on issues of analyzing and optimizing
programs, as well as creating means of protecting information, delicately tiptoe
around the fact that in order to competently find "holes" in a program without
having its source code, you have to disassemble them. Restoring something that
even somewhat resembles the source code is still considered an extremely complex
task. In the book, the author describes a technology used by hackers that gives
a practically identical source code, and this includes programs in C++ as well,
which are particularly difficult to disassemble.
The book gives a detailed description of ways to identify and reconstruct key
structures of the source language—functions (including virtual ones), local and
global variables, branching, loops, objects and their hierarchy, mathematical
operators, etc. The disassembly methodology that we will look at has been
formalized—i.e., it has been translated from an intuitive concept into a
complete technology, available and comprehensible to almost anyone.
The book contains a large number of unique practical materials. It is
organized in such a manner that it will most certainly be useful to the everyday
programmer as a manual on optimizing programs for modern intelligent compilers,
and to the information protection specialist as a manual on looking for
so-called "bugs." The "from simple to complex" style of the book allows it to
easily be used as a textbook for beginner analyzers and "code diggers." |
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