Anti-Hacker Tool Kit

Chapter 1: Netcat and Cryptcat As you will see throughout this book, a plethora of network security and hacker tools are at your disposal. In most cases,...

Chapter 2: The X Window System OVERVIEW Up to this point we've been immersed with Netcat and the command line. Some users view command-line tools as...

Chapter 3: Virtual Machines amp; Emulators Throughout this book we cover tools for many different operating systems. To use the full gamut of tools, many...

Chapter 4: Port Scanners OVERVIEW Chapter 1 introduced the versatile Netcat that, amongst several dozen uses, could serve as a Transmission Control...

Chapter 5: Unix Enumeration Tools Many of the most useful tools you'll ever encounter are included by default on Unix-based operating systems. Others are...

Chapter 6: Windows Enumeration Tools OVERVIEW In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes berates a police inspector: "Breadth of vie...

Chapter 7: Web Hacking Tools OVERVIEW Web server security can be divided into two broad categories: testing the server for common vulnerabilities an...

Chapter 8: Password Cracking / Brute-Force Tools OVERVIEW Asmile, a house key, a password. Whether you're trying to get into a nightclub, your house,...

Chapter 9: Host Hardening OVERVIEW The concept of hardening a system is well known for its benefit of preventing, or at least mitigating, exploits f...

Chapter 10: Backdoors and Remote Access Tools OVERVIEW Backdoors and remote access tools are important for any security professional to understand....

Chapter 11: Simple Source Auditing Tools OVERVIEW Aquick perusal of security web sites and mailing lists that catalog software vulnerabilities revea...

Chapter 12: Combination System Auditing Tools OVERVIEW If every software application worked the way it was supposed to, we wouldn't have to write th...

Chapter 13: Firewalls Throughout this book, we have indicated that certain network services have great potential for compromise and should be run only fr...

Chapter 14: Network Reconnaissance Tools One of the precursors to a targeted attack on your network is the collection of information related to its footp...

Chapter 15: Port Redirection OVERVIEW The majority of TCP/IP services rely on a client/server method for establishing connections. For a packet to r...

Chapter 16: Sniffers OVERVIEW Have you ever taken a moment to consider just how much traffic is passing over the Internet every single day? Although...

Chapter 17: Wireless Tools OVERVIEW Wireless networks offer the convenience of mobility and a reduced amount of network equipment. They also broadca...

Chapter 18: War Dialers OVERVIEW Before the Internet moved from obscurity to part of daily life, electronic communities and information sharing reli...

Chapter 19: TCP/IP Stack Tools Testing the TCP/IP stack of your firewall, web server, or router isn't part of a daily security review or even a weekly au...

Chapter 20: Creating a Bootable Environment and Live Response Tool Kit OVERVIEW When a call comes in that a system has been hacked, the forensic cons...

Chapter 21: Commercial Forensic Image Tool Kits OVERVIEW Once the decision is made that an investigation will take place, it is a good idea to obtai...

Chapter 22: Open-Source Forensic Duplication Tool Kits OVERVIEW Chapter 21 reviewed several commercially distributed tool kits that perform forensic...

Chapter 23: Tool Kits to Aid in Forensic Analysis In Chapters 21 and 22, we reviewed tools that can forensically duplicate a source hard drive. That is t...

Chapter 24: Tools to Aid in Internet Activity Reconstruction OVERVIEW Forensic investigators are frequently asked to reconstruct the online activitie...

Chapter 25: Generalized Editors and Viewers OVERVIEW Despite the growing popularity and acceptance of tool suites produced by Guidance, Paraben, Acc...

Chapter 26: Reverse Engineering Binaries OVERVIEW Your computer seems to be running slower than normal. The router shows that your computer is trans...