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Hack the Stack
By: Michael Gregg , Stephen WatkinsImprint: Syngress
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This book looks at network security in a new and refreshing way. It guides readers step-by-step through the "stack" -- the seven layers of a network. Each chapter focuses on one layer of the stack along with the attacks, vulnerabilities, and exploits that can be found at that layer. The book even includes a chapter on the mythical eighth layer: The people layer.
This book is designed to offer readers a deeper understanding of many common vulnerabilities and the ways in which attacker's exploit, manipulate, misuse, and abuse protocols and applications. The authors guide the readers through this process by using tools such as Ethereal (sniffer) and Snort (IDS). The sniffer is used to help readers understand how the protocols should work and what the various attacks are doing to break them. IDS is used to demonstrate the format of specific signatures and provide the reader with the skills needed to recognize and detect attacks when they occur.
What makes this book unique is that it presents the material in a layer by layer approach which offers the readers a way to learn about exploits in a manner similar to which they most likely originally learned networking. This methodology makes this book a useful tool to not only security professionals but also for networking professionals, application programmers, and others. All of the primary protocols such as IP, ICMP, TCP are discussed but each from a security perspective. The authors convey the mindset of the attacker by examining how seemingly small flaws are often the catalyst of potential threats. The book considers the general kinds of things that may be monitored that would have alerted users of an attack.
* Remember being a child and wanting to take something apart, like a phone, to see how it worked? This book is for you then as it details how specific hacker tools and techniques accomplish the things they do.
* This book will not only give you knowledge of security tools but will provide you the ability to design more robust security solutions
* Anyone can tell you what a tool does but this book shows you how the tool works
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| Release Date: 12-27-2006 | |
| Publisher: Syngress |
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Hack the Stack
Chapter One
Extending OSI to Network Security
Solutions in this chapter:
* Our Approach to This Book
* Common Stack Attacks
* Mapping the OSI Model to the TCP/IP Model
* The Current State of IT Security
* Using the Information in this Book
[ ] Summary
[ ] Solutions Fast Track
[ ] Frequently Asked Questions
Introduction
"Everything old becomes new again." The goal of this chapter is to take the well-known Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model and use it to present security topics in a new and unique way. While each of the subsequent chapters focuses on one individual layer, this chapter offers a high-level overview of the entire book.
Our Approach to This Book
This book is compiled of issues and concerns that security professionals must deal with on a daily basis. We look at common attack patterns and how they are made possible. Many attacks occur because of poor protocol design; others occur because of poor programming or lack of forethought when designing code. Finally, the tools that are useful for identifying and analyzing exploits and exposures are discussed—the tools you will return to time and time again.
Tools of the Trade
The following sections examine "protocol analyzers" and the Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSes), which are the two main tools used throughout this book.
Protocol Analyzers
Protocol analyzers (or sniffers) are powerful programs that work by placing the host system's network card into promiscuous mode, thereby allowing it to receive all of t
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