HACKING EXPOSED 4TH EDITION

New and Updated Material:

* Each part opens with a brand new case study based on real security scenarios
* Brand new chapter covers the latest 802.11 Wireless networking security attacks and countermeasures
* New strategies for proactively defending against dial-up, PBX, voicemail, and VPN hacks
* Completely rewritten enumeration chapter including new SQL Server discovery tools, Windows XP/.NET Server countermeasures, Novell exploits, and network discovery using BGP
* New techniques for gaining unauthorized access to Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP, Novell 6, UNIX, and Linux
* Up-to-date countermeasures for preventing the exploitation of proxy and packet filtering firewall vulnerabilities
* Web hacking chapter completely revised and updated to cover the latest platform-specific vulnerabilities from Apache to IIS, current techniques including cross-site scripting, fuzzing, and SQL injection attacks, and all of the latest tools from Achilles to Nikto
* Hacking Exposed Live! video presentation on DVD

Stuart McClure is the co-author of all four editions of Hacking Exposed as well as Hacking Exposed Windows 2000. Stuart co-authored "Security Watch," a weekly column in InfoWorld addressing topical security issues, exploits, and vulnerabilities. He is the President/CTO of Foundstone, Inc. Prior to co-founding Foundstone, Stuart was a Senior Manager with Ernst & Young's Security Profiling Services Group, responsible for project management, attack and penetration reviews, and technology evaluations. Stuart trains Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking course, and Hacking Exposed Live for conferences such as Networld + InterOp, Black Hat, RSA, CSI, among others.

Joel Scambray, CISSP is the co-author of all four editions of Hacking Exposed as well as Hacking Exposed Web Applications and Hacking Exposed Windows 2000. Joel co-authored "Security Watch," a weekly column in InfoWorld. Joel is the author of Microsoft's "Ask Us About…Security" Monthly Column. He also taught Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking Windows course.

George Kurtz, CISSP is the co-author of all four editions of Hacking Exposed as well as Hacking Exposed Linux. He is the CEO of Foundstone, a cutting edge security solutions provider. Mr. Kurtz has significant experience with intrusion detection and firewall technologies, incident response procedures, and remote access solutions. As CEO and co-founder of Foundstone, Mr. Kurtz provides a unique combination of business acumen and technical security know-how.

"Reading this book is better than hiring those Sneakers guys to break into your network to tell you where the open doors are, and it doesn't cost nearly as much." --Professional Certification magazine

"A great practical guide for administrators and an eminently readable expose on hacking that should smooth the way for sensible executive policies to protect corporate networks." --Cameron Sturdevant, eWeek

"Will tell you more about what hackers have done and can--and can't--do than anything else I have seen....Chock full of tips on countermeasures and just plain usability tricks. Recommended." --Jerry Pournelle, BYTE Magazine

"For almost any computer book, you can find a clone. But not this one.... A one-of-a-kind study of the art of breaking in." --UNIX Review