Learn IT - Books tags attacks

Snort Cookbook

O'Reilly, 2005

If you are a network administrator, you're under a lot of pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are completely safe from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, CGI attacks, and other network intruders. Designing a reliable way to detect intruders before they get in is an...

Secure Systems Development with UML

Springer, 2004

Attacks against computer systems can cause considerable economic or physical damage. High-quality development of security-critical systems is difficult, mainly because of the conflict between development costs and verifiable correctness.

Jürjens presents the UML extension UMLsec for secure systems development. It uses the standard UML...

SQL Antipatterns: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2010

Each chapter in this book helps you identify, explain, and correct a unique and dangerous antipattern. The four parts of the book group the anti?patterns in terms of logical database design, physical database design, queries, and application development.

The chances are good that your application's database...

RSA Security's Official Guide to Cryptography

McGraw-Hill, 2001

Learn how cryptography works--from the leading authority in e-security. Cryptography is one of the smartest ways to protect the information on your network and reduce the risk of security breaches and attacks from hackers. And because implementing cryptography is a complex process, you need the practical advice and proven techniques contained...

Modern Cryptography: Theory and Practice

Prentice Hall, 2003

Leading HP security expert Wenbo Mao explains why "textbook" crypto schemes, protocols, and systems are profoundly vulnerable by revealing real-world-scenario attacks. Next, he shows how to realize cryptographic systems and protocols that are truly "fit for application"--and formally demonstrates their fitness. Mao presents...

Protecting Networks with SATAN

O'Reilly, 1998

SATAN (Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks) is a powerful aid for system administrators. It performs "security audits," scanning host computers for security vulnerabilities caused by erroneous configurations or by known software errors in frequently used programs. SATAN is a particularly interesting piece of...

Authentication and Access Control: Practical Cryptography Methods and Tools

Apress, 2020

The advent of the Internet has allowed for many services and applications, most notably in communications between users, servers, and devices. Unfortunately, this has led to many security challenges and problems. Recent examples include password leakage on large social network sites and defacement of websites. It is, therefore,...

Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

Springer, 2005

In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper. With these changes in technology and the ways it was used came a need to protect both the systems and the information. For the next ten years, encryption systems of varying strengths were developed, but none proved...

SIP Security

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

This book gives a detailed overview of SIP specific security issues and how to solve them

While the standards and products for VoIP and SIP services have reached market maturity, security and regulatory aspects of such services are still being discussed. SIP itself specifies only a basic set of security mechanisms...

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The world’s most celebrated hacker delivers the lowdown on today’s most serious security weakness–human nature

"Finally someone is on to the real cause of data security breaches–stupid humans … Mitnick … reveals clever tricks of the ‘social engineering’ trade and shows how to fend them...

Kamikaze: Japan's Suicide Gods

Linworth Publishing, 2002

The untold story of the Kamikaze pilots, a remarkable piece of military history and one of the most dramatic developments of World War II.

* Gripping real-life stories of life & death.
* Contains original material, interviews and new sources including excerpts from a never-before published suicide manual.
* Reports...

The Basics of Web Hacking: Tools and Techniques to Attack the Web

Syngress Publishing, 2013

The Basics of Web Hacking introduces you to a tool-driven process to identify the most widespread vulnerabilities in Web applications. No prior experience is needed. Web apps are a "path of least resistance" that can be exploited to cause the most damage to a system, with the lowest hurdles to overcome. This is a perfect...

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