Hack the Stack: Using Snort and Ethereal to Master The 8 Layers of An Insecure Network {Repost}

Hack the Stack: Using Snort and Ethereal to Master The 8 Layers of An Insecure Network
Publisher: Syngress | ISBN: 1597491098 | edition 2007 | PDF | 468 pages | 13,7 mb

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.




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