Network Security: A Hacker’s Perspective

Network Security: A Hacker’s Perspective will help you step into the minds of computer criminals so you can predict their moves and stop them before they can strike. You’ll become a real hacker profiler as you find out the ways in which these attackers can infiltrate your system, including stealing your identity by obtaining your IP address; gathering information through port scanning, fingerprinting, and sniffing; and attacking password files. Whether you are a network administrator or recreational user of the Internet, you will learn the right countermeasures to protect sensitive information and ensure that neither you nor your company ever become a defenseless target.

Ankit Fadia's Web site, "Hacking Truths," was created for a small circle of friends to whom Ankit would send out periodic hacking manuals. Today, it gets about 100,000 hits per day and his mailing list contains between 60,000-70,000 addresses. Ankit has written many tutorials on hacking and articles for several computer magazines and Web sites. He is the author of "The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking" (1931841721) from Premier Press and is co-author of "Tips and Tricks about Linux."