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Phishing Dark Waters: The Offensive and Defensive Sides of Malicious Emails

John Wiley & Sons, 2015

An essential anti-phishing desk reference for anyone with an email address

Phishing Dark Waters addresses the growing and continuing scourge of phishing emails, and provides actionable defensive techniques and tools to help you steer clear of malicious emails. Phishing is analyzed from the viewpoint of human...

Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems

No Starch Press, 2011

It's easy to capture packets with Wireshark, the world's most popular network sniffer, whether off the wire or from the air. But how do you use those packets to understand what's happening on your network?

With an expanded discussion of network protocols and 45 completely new scenarios, this extensively...

Wireshark® 101: Essential Skills for Network Analysis

Laura Chappell University, 2013

This book is written for beginner analysts and includes 46 step-by-step labs to walk you through many of the essential skills contained herein. This book provides an ideal starting point whether you are interested in analyzing traffic to learn how an application works, you need to troubleshoot slow network performance, or determine whether a...

Blackhatonomics: An Inside Look at the Economics of Cybercrime

Syngress Publishing, 2012

Would you be surprised if I say that the essence of cyber-crime comes down to traditional theft of property—be that of funds in accounts, of company data (and the financial harm that can cause), or of personal/confidential information (and the damage that can cause by it winding up in the wrong hands)? As time goes by, hackers, virus...

Black Hat Python: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters

No Starch Press, 2014

When it comes to creating powerful and effective hacking tools, Python is the language of choice for most security analysts. But just how does the magic happen?

In Black Hat Python, the latest from Justin Seitz (author of the best-selling Gray Hat Python), you'll explore the darker side of Python's...

The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense

Addison Wesley, 2005

Symantec's chief antivirus researcher has written the definitive guide to contemporary virus threats, defense techniques, and analysis tools. Unlike most books on computer viruses, The Art of Computer Virus Research and Defense is a reference written strictly...

Malicious Cryptography: Exposing Cryptovirology

John Wiley & Sons, 2004

Hackers have uncovered the dark side of cryptography—that device developed to defeat Trojan horses, viruses, password theft, and other cyber-crime. It’s called cryptovirology, the art of turning the very methods designed to protect your data into a means of subverting it. In this fascinating, disturbing volume, the experts who first...

Mastering Machine Learning for Penetration Testing: Develop an extensive skill set to break self-learning systems using Python

Packt Publishing, 2018

Become a master at penetration testing using machine learning with Python

Key Features

Identify ambiguities and breach intelligent security systems

Perform unique cyber attacks to breach robust systems

Learn to leverage machine learning algorithms

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Managed Code Rootkits: Hooking into Runtime Environments

Syngress Publishing, 2010

We live in a world in which we can’t trust our computers. For example, how can we know for sure that our hardware manufacturer did not hide malicious code in the system’s microchip? Or that our freshly installed operating system does not contain backdoors created by a rogue developer from the OS development team?

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Ransomware: Defending Against Digital Extortion

O'Reilly, 2016

The biggest online threat to businesses and consumers today is ransomware, a category of malware that can encrypt your computer files until you pay a ransom to unlock them. With this practical book, you’ll learn how easily ransomware infects your system and what steps you can take to stop the attack before it sets foot in the...

Virtualization for Security: Including Sandboxing, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Forensic Analysis, and Honeypotting

Syngress Publishing, 2008

One of the biggest buzzwords in the IT industry for the past few years, virtualization has matured into a practical requirement for many best-practice business scenarios, becoming an invaluable tool for security professionals at companies of every size. In addition to saving time and other resources, virtualization affords unprecedented means for...

CryptoGraphics: Exploiting Graphics Cards For Security (Advances in Information Security)

Springer, 2006

Software that covertly monitors user actions, also known as spyware, has become a first-level security threat due to its ubiquity and the difficulty of detecting and removing it. This is especially so for video conferencing, thin-client computing and Internet cafes.

CryptoGraphics: Exploiting Graphics Cards for Security...

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