Hack Proofing Your Network

Ed Mitchell, Ido Dubrawsky, Wyman Miles, F. William Lynch, Syngress9781928994442, 192899444X, 1928994598, 1928994601, 1928994709

The book explains important terms like “smashing the stack, ” “blind spoofing, ” “building a backward bridge, ” “steganography, ” and “buffer overflow, ” and why you need to worry about them. It also shows how to protect servers from attacks by using a five-step approach: Planning, Network/Machine Recon, Research/Develop, Execute Attack and Achieve Goal, and Cleanup.