Zero-Day Exploit:: Countdown to Darkness

The realistic portrayals of researching, developing, and ultimately defending the Internet from a malicious "Zero-Day" attack will appeal to every corner of the IT community. Although finctional, the numerous accounts of real events and references to real people will ring true with every member of the security community. This book will also satisfy those not on the "inside" of this community, who are fascinated by the real tactics and motives of criminal, malicous hackers and those who defent the Internet from them.

Rob Shein, also known as Rogue Shoten, works as an independent consultant in the Washington, DC area. His experience includes doing hard time at Network Solutions, followed by VeriSign, where he was a member of the FIRE Team, providing incident response and penetration testing services to Fortune 100 clients. He also served on a red team at Titan, during which time he did work he's not supposed to even talk about to himself. He has presented at several conferences, including Def Con and e-Gov, and is currently working on a book covering home computer security for non-technical users. His greatest love is resolving significant problems under intense pressure, which explains his affinity for incident response.

Marcus H. Sachs is the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center and is a cyberspace security researcher, writer, and instructor for the SANS Institute. He previously served in the White House Office of Cyberspace Security and was a staff member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. While a member of the White House staff, Mr. Sachs coordinated efforts to protect and secure the nation's telecommunication and Internet infrastructures, leveraging expertise from United States government agencies, the domestic private sector, and the international community. He also contributed to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, upon his joining of the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security. While working for DHS, he developed the initial concept and strategy for the creation of the United States Computer Emergency Response Team. Marcus retired from the United States Army in 2001 after serving over 20 years as a Corps of Engineers officer. He specialized during the later half of his career in computer network operations, systems automation, and information technology.

David Litchfield leads the world in the discovery and publication of computer security vulnerabilities. This outstanding research was recognized by Information Security Magazine who voted him as 'The World's Best Bug Hunter' for 2003. To date, David has found over 150 vulnerabilities in many of today's popular products from the major software companies (the majority in Microsoft, Oracle). David is also the original author for the entire suite of security assessment tools available from NGSSoftware. This includes the flagship vulnerability scanner Typhon III, the range of database auditing tools NGSSquirrel for SQL Server, NGSSquirrel for Oracle, OraScan and Domino Scan II.