HackNotes Linux and Unix Security Portable reference

Reference provides step-by-step details of intrusion tactics, tools, and actual techniques currently being used by criminals to break into computer networks. Shows how to protect and harden Linux and Unix hosts against the most troublesome security issues. For network administrators.

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HackNotes Linux and Unix Security Portable Reference gives you step-by-step details of intrusion tactics, tools, and actual techniques currently being used by criminals to break into computer networks. This book will teach you how to protect and harden Linux and Unix hosts against the most troublesome security issues. Use the unique and easy-to-access Reference Center in the middle of the book to quickly locate useful commands, online security resources, and more!

* Explore counter intrusion tactics such as password brute-forcing, TCP-hijacking, man-in-the-middle attacks, and more
* Learn to use the latest hacking tools, including Airsnort, Dsniff, Ettercap, Ethereal, Kismet, Netcat, and Nmap
* Protect against privilege escalation attacks
* Protect the most popular network services, including FTP, SSH, Telnet, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, R-Services, NFS, Samba, POP, IMAP, MySQL, X, and VNC
* Recognize both Backdoor and Rootkit tools and tactics used by sophisticated intruders
* Learn in-depth and current Linux and Unix system hardening guidelines
* Defend against software vulnerabilities such as race conditions, improper input validation, and misconfigurations
* Write custom plug-ins for Nessus, the popular and free vulnerability scanning tool
* Understand the latest wireless (802.11) hacking techniques, tools, and defenses



About the Author
Nitesh Dhanjani is a senior consultant for Ernst & Young's Advanced Security Center. He has performed network, application, web-application, wireless, source-code, host security reviews and security architecture design services for clients in the Fortune 500.

Nitesh is the author of "HackNotes: Unix and Linux Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). He is also a contributing author for the best-selling security book "Hacking Exposed 4" and "HackNotes: Network Security".

Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Nitesh worked as consultant for Foundstone Inc. where he performed attack and penetration reviews for many significant companies in the IT arena. While at Foundstone, Nitesh both contributed to and taught parts of Foundstone s "Utimate Hacking: Expert" and "Ultimate Hacking" security courses.

Nitesh has been involved in various educational and open-source projects and continues to be active in the area of system and Linux kernel development. He has published technical articles for various publications such as the Linux Journal.

Nitesh gratuated from Purdue University with both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science. While at Purdue, he was involed in numerous research projects with the CERIAS (Center for Education and Research Information Assurance and Security) team. During his research at Purdue, Nitesh was responsible for creating content for and teaching C and C++ programming courses to be delievred remotely as part of a project sponsored by IBM, AT&T, and Intel.


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