Nitesh Dhanjani

Hacking: The Next Generation (eBook, ePUB)

The Next Generation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures, a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of systems, Hacking: The Next Generation is one of the few books to identify a variety of emerging attack vectors. You'll not only find valuable information on new hacks that attempt to exploit technical flaws, you'll also learn how attackers take advantage of individuals via social networking sites, and abuse vulnerabilities in wireless technologies and cloud infrastructures. Written by seasoned Internet security professionals, this book helps you understand the motives and psychology of hackers behind these attacks, enabling you to better prepare and defend against them.Learn how "e;inside out"e; techniques can poke holes into protected networksUnderstand the new wave of "e;blended threats"e; that take advantage of multiple application vulnerabilities to steal corporate dataRecognize weaknesses in today's powerful cloud infrastructures and how they can be exploitedPrevent attacks against the mobile workforce and their devices containing valuable dataBe aware of attacks via social networking sites to obtain confidential information from executives and their assistantsGet case studies that show how several layers of vulnerabilities can be used to compromise multinational corporations

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781449379216
• Artikelnr.: 52864834

Autorenporträt

Nitesh Dhanjani is a well known security researcher, author, and speaker. Dhanjani is currently Senior Manager at a large consulting firm where he advises some of the largest corporations around the world on how to establish enterprise wide information security programs and solutions. Dhanjani is also responsible for evangelizing brand new technology service lines around emerging technologies and trends such as cloud computing and virtualization. Prior to his current job, Dhanjani was Senior Director of Application Security and Assessments at a major credit bureau where he spearheaded brand new security efforts into enhancing the enterprise SDLC, created a process for performing source code security reviews & Threat Modeling, and managed the Attack & Penetration team. Dhanjani is the author of "Network Security Tools: Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools" (O'Reilly) and "HackNotes: Linux and Unix Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). He is also a contributing author to "Hacking Exposed 4" (Osborne McGraw-Hill) and "HackNotes: Network Security". Dhanjani has been invited to talk at various information security events such as the Black Hat Briefings, RSA, Hack in the Box, Microsoft Blue Hat, and OSCON. Dhanjani graduated from Purdue University with both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science. Dhanjani's personal blog is located at dhanjani.com. Billy Rios is currently a Security Engineer for Microsoft where he studies emerging risks and cutting edge security attacks and defenses. Before his current role as a Security Engineer, Billy was a Senior Security Consultant for various consulting firms including VeriSign and Ernst and Young. As a consultant, Billy performed network, application, and wireless vulnerability assessments as well as tiger team/full impact risk assessments against numerous clients in the Fortune 500. Before his life as a consultant, Billy helped defend US Department of Defense networks as an Intrusion Detection Analyst for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and was an active duty Officer in the US Marine Corps (deployed in support of OIF in 2003). Billy s thought leadership includes speaking engagements at numerous security conferences including: Blackhat Briefings, RSA, Microsoft Bluehat, DEFCON, PacSec, HITB, the Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA), as well as several other security related conferences. Billy holds a Master of Science degree in Information Systems, a Master of Business Administration degree, and an undergraduate degree in Business Administration Brett Hardin is a Security Research Lead with McAfee. At McAfee, Brett bridges security and business perspectives to aid upper management in understanding security issues. Before joining McAfee, Brett was a penetration tester for Ernst and Young's Advanced Security Center assessing web application and intranet security for Fortune 500 companies. In addition, Brett also is the author of misc-security.com. A blog dedicated to focusing on security topics from a high-level or business-level perspective. Brett holds a bachelor of science in Computer Science from California State University at Chico.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Audience
Assumptions This Book Makes
Contents of This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
We'd Like to Hear from You
Safari® Books Online
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Intelligence Gathering: Peering Through the Windows to Your Organization
1.1 Physical Security Engineering
1.2 Google Earth
1.3 Social Engineering Call Centers
1.4 Search Engine Hacking
1.5 Leveraging Social Networks
1.6 Tracking Employees
1.7 What Information Is Important?
1.8 Summary
Chapter 2: Inside-Out Attacks: The Attacker Is the Insider
2.1 Man on the Inside
2.2 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
2.3 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
2.4 Content Ownership
2.5 Advanced Content Ownership Using GIFARs
2.6 Stealing Files from the Filesystem
2.7 Summary
Chapter 3: The Way It Works: There Is No Patch
3.1 Exploiting Telnet and FTP
3.2 Abusing SMTP
3.3 Abusing ARP
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4: Blended Threats: When Applications Exploit Each Other
4.1 Application Protocol Handlers
4.2 Blended Attacks
4.3 Finding Blended Threats
4.4 Summary
Chapter 5: Cloud Insecurity: Sharing the Cloud with Your Enemy
5.1 What Changes in the Cloud
5.2 Attacks Against the Cloud
5.3 Summary
Chapter 6: Abusing Mobile Devices: Targeting Your Mobile Workforce
6.1 Targeting Your Mobile Workforce
6.2 Summary
Chapter 7: Infiltrating the Phishing Underground: Learning from Online Criminals?
7.1 The Fresh Phish Is in the Tank
7.2 Examining the Phishers
7.3 The Loot
7.4 Infiltrating the Underground
7.5 Summary
Chapter 8: Influencing Your Victims: Do What We Tell You, Please
8.1 The Calendar Is a Gold Mine
8.2 Social Identities
8.3 Hacking the Psyche
8.4 Summary
Chapter 9: Hacking Executives: Can Your CEO Spot a Targeted Attack?
9.1 Fully Targeted Attacks Versus Opportunistic Attacks
9.2 Motives
9.3 Information Gathering
9.4 Attack Scenarios
9.5 Summary
Chapter 10: Case Studies: Different Perspectives
10.1 The Disgruntled Employee
10.2 The Silver Bullet
10.3 Summary
Chapter 2 Source Code Samples
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Pingback.js
External-datamine.js
XHRIEsniperscope()
Codecrossdomain.java
HiddenClass.java
Cache_Snoop.pl
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