The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking

The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking helps you to protect your system from such attacks. This book makes you differentiate between hackers and crackers. Hackers are those who search for and take advantage of weak points in a computer system, while crackers ‘breaks’ someone else’s computer system. Crackers can damage your system by passing a virus into your computer system.

By reading this book, you can update yourself about the different hacking techniques, and protect your system better. This book covers vital and comprehensive information and methods about network hacking, and attacks of input validation, overflow, privacy, and Denial Of Services (DOS). It also includes information about the most common exploits, vulnerabilities, loopholes, and many more vital topics.

The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking starts with the introduction of what a hacker is, hacking windows, information about hacking related to networks, the web, and passwords, attacks of input validation, buffer overflow, and privacy. You can also learn a mammoth description of TCP/IP, DOS attacks, cryptography, firewalls, and error messages. This book also provides the description of batch file programming, viruses torn apart, and readers also get know about the working of viruses.

The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking is not only a guide to hacking, but it also explains other aspects related to computer security. The second edition of this book was published by Macmillan India Ltd in 2006 and available in paperback.

Key Features:

• Case studies are included in this book, which helps in understanding the theory in the book easily.
• Methods and information of this book are updated and explained in a step-by-step pattern.