LinuxSecurity.com
Share your story
The central voice for Linux and Open Source security news
Home News Topics Advisories HOWTOs Features Newsletters About Register

Welcome!
Sign up!
EnGarde Community
Login
Polls
What is the most important Linux security technology?
 
Advisories
Community
Linux Events
Linux User Groups
Link to Us
Security Center
Book Reviews
Security Dictionary
Security Tips
SELinux
White Papers
Featured Blogs
All About Linux
DanWalsh LiveJournal
Securitydistro
Latest Newsletters
Linux Security Week: March 16th, 2010
Linux Advisory Watch: March 14th, 2010
Subscribe
LinuxSecurity Newsletters
E-mail:
Choose Lists:
About our Newsletters
RSS Feeds
Get the LinuxSecurity news you want faster with RSS
Powered By

  
A Step-By-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses Print E-mail
User Rating:      How can I rate this item?
Source: About.com - Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Security Five years after writing one of the original books in the hack attack and countermeasures genre of books, Ed Skoudis has teamed up with Tom Liston to create a revised and updated version. Counter Hack Reloaded brings Counter Hack up to date with new technologies and attack types as well as providing the informaion you need to protect your computer and network from being targeted by these attacks.

Ed Skoudis and Tom Liston teamed up to revise and update Counter Hack. There have been a number of books in this genre, hack attacks and countermeasures, since Counter Hack was first written, and Skoudis spells out early in the book why he feels this contribution is still necessary. For one, he likens Counter Hack Reloaded to an encyclopedia, rather than a dictionary, providing more detail about the attacks and putting the attacks in context to convey more information than just defining the attacks. He also points out that Counter Hack reloaded presents the entire attack end to end and also includes scenarios which illustrate how the pieces are used together to orchestrate an attack.

Read this full article at About.com

Only registered users can write comments.
Please login or register.

Powered by AkoComment!

 
< Prev   Next >
    
Partner:

 

Latest Features
Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
A Secure Nagios Server
HowTo: Secure your Ubuntu Apache Web Server
Creating Snort Rules with EnGarde
What You Need to Know About Linux Rootkits.
Introduction: Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Network Security Audit (Part II)
Yesterday's Edition
Google patches 11 vulnerabilities in Chrome days before hacking contest
Revised draft of Cybersecurity Act introduced in Senate
Security updates for Drupal modules
Exploit code with DNS tunnel
What Are the Most Underrated Security Technologies?
Get to the root of security threats
Kernel vulnerabilities discovered in Ubuntu
Partner Sponsor

Community | HOWTOs | Blogs | Features | Book Reviews | Networking
 Security Projects |  Latest News |  Newsletters |  SELinux |  Privacy |  Home
 Hardening |   About Us |   Advertise |   Legal Notice |   RSS |   Guardian Digital
(c)Copyright 2010 Guardian Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.