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# Publisher: Cisco Press (November 10, 2005)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1587052083
# ISBN-13: 978-1587052088


Product Description

The practical guide to simulating, detecting, and responding to network attacks

    * Create step-by-step testing plans
    * Learn to perform social engineering and host reconnaissance
    * Evaluate session hijacking methods
    * Exploit web server vulnerabilities
    * Detect attempts to breach database security
    * Use password crackers to obtain access information
    * Circumvent Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and firewall protections and disrupt the service of routers and switches
    * Scan and penetrate wireless networks
    * Understand the inner workings of Trojan Horses, viruses, and other backdoor applications
    * Test UNIX, Microsoft, and Novell servers for vulnerabilities
    * Learn the root cause of buffer overflows and how to prevent them
    * Perform and prevent Denial of Service attacks

Penetration testing is a growing field but there has yet to be a definitive resour

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