Rootkit Arsenal ─ Escape and Evasion in the Dark Corners of the System

This thorough and comprehensive volume on computer security provides an attacker's perspective on current and cutting edge hacking techniques used by computer criminals today. While intended for "white hat" security professionals, the volume provides detailed information on aggressive attacks designed to provide real world experience necessary for combating clever and persistent threats. Beginning with a section on hacking philosophy and practice and an overview of anti-forensics, the work covers topics such as hardware and system analysis, software tools, defeating disk and executable analysis, defeating live response security, modifying code, and exploiting covert channels. Chapters include illustrations, code examples and notes. This second edition is heavily modified to omit technologies and strategies that are no longer effective and to reflect the latest advances in system penetration. Blunden is a computer security expert. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)