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Understanding the Significance of TCP/IP for Ethical Hacking Success

Calendar Apr 10, 2006 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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network security security techniques ethical hacking TCP/IP suite attack methodologies
The Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite is so dominant and important to ethical hacking that it is given wide coverage in this chapter. Many tools, attacks, and techniques that will be seen throughout this book are based on the use and misuse of TCP/IP protocol suite. Understanding its basic functions will advance your security skills. This chapter also spends time reviewing the attacker's process and some of the better known methodologies used by ethical hackers.

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