Hack Attacks Encyclopedia: A Complete History of Hacks, Cracks, Phreaks, and Spies Over Time - Softcover

Chirillo, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471055891 ISBN 13: 9780471055891

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

A complete library of the hottest, never–before–published underground hack variations
In his highly provocative books, Hack Attacks Revealed (0–471–41624–X) and Hack Attacks Denied (0–471–41625–8), corporate hack master John Chirillo described the tools, techniques, and primary code that hackers use to exploit network security loopholes and then shows specific methods for blocking these attacks. However, now that so many of their standard techniques have been revealed, underground hackers and cyberpunks are again skirting the system, going beyond primary code, and resorting to using complex code variations of old techniques. That′s where this book breaks new ground––by providing, for the first time, the most comprehensive compendium of all the complex variations of these techniques, both historical and current, that the hacking underground doesn′t want you to see. It offers astounding details on just about every tool used by those who break into corporate networks––information that will go a long way toward helping you close any remaining security gaps. An ideal companion volume to the other "Hack Attacks" books, Hack Attacks Complete:
o Covers hacks from the 1970s all the way to new millennium hacks
o Details every permutation, variation, and category of hacking tools
o Categorizes hacks for easy reference, with such categories as hacking, cracking, phreaking, spying, anarchy and underground spite, and hack/phreak technical library

About this title

Review

" The author has amassed an enormous amount of material and it is supplemented by a bound–in CD–ROM in each book". (Software World, May 2002)

From the Author

Step Inside the Real World-A Glimpse into the Hacker's Underground

I know of a reality where computer crime is a lifestyle. Places where your social security and credit card numbers are traded with pokerfaced anonymity. Places where even the most guarded computers are vulnerable to sophisticated hack attacks. These places share a common name-a name composed of alternative vocations such as computer hacking and cracking, software pirating, phone system phreaking, information sniffing, identity spoofing, communication spying, and corporate espionage. The name is the Underground-a virtual locality that hackers call home.

Did you know you could unintentionally download malicious programs that can make the most threatening virus seem harmless? These programs are designed to allow a remote attacker the ability to secretly control your network server or personal computer. Hackers can collect passwords, access accounts (including e-mail), modify documents, share hard drive volumes, record keystrokes, capture screen shots, and even listen to conversations from your computer's microphone.

Did you know by simply browsing the Internet, wherever you go and whatever you do, almost anyone can track your movements while collecting personal information about you? Hackers can easily exploit this critical information leak, and collect data right from your web browser.

As the world becomes increasingly networked through the Internet, competitors, spies, disgruntled employees, bored teens, and hackers more frequently invade others' computers to steal information, sabotage careers, and just to make trouble. Together, the Internet and the World Wide Web have opened a new backdoor, through which a remote attacker can invade home computers or company networks and electronically snoop through the data therein. The continued growth of the Internet, along with advances in technology, mean these intrusions will become increasingly prevalent. Today, external threats are a real-world problem for any company or home with connectivity. To ensure that remote access is safe, that systems are secure, and that security policies are sound, users in all walks of life need to understand the hacker, know how the hacker thinks-in short, become the hacker.

Most people hardly realize the threats they face from within their company networks to their home computers. More than likely, there have been hack attacks unbeknownst to you-in your neighborhood, down your block, next door, even in your home. If you think you're safe, you're probably not. Join me through the maelstrom of chaos, from where malicious hackers attack. Follow me through the Hack Attacks series, to the very core of the Underground, as we expose these attacks, and lockdown our networks, our personal computers, and our privacy. You are faced with a challenging technogothic journey, and I'll be your guide. Malicious individuals are infesting the world of technology. My goal is to help mold you into something better I'm going to make a virtuous hacker guru out of you.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0471055891
• ISBN 13: 9780471055891
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 960