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Hacking The Next Generation


Supplied by..: Team ATTiCA Genre........: eBook
Release Date.: 09-2009 System.......: PDF
Store Date...: 09-2009 Language.....: english
Protection...: TFM Disksize.....: 2 x 5 MB
iSBN.........: 0596154577 Publisher....: Oreilly
Editors......: Edition......: 1. Edition


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With the advent of rich Internet applications, the explosion of social
media, and the increased use of powerful cloud computing infrastructures,
a new generation of attackers has added cunning new techniques to its
arsenal. For anyone involved in defending an application or a network of
systems, Hacking: The Next Generation is one of the few books to identify
a variety of emerging attack vectors. You'll not only find valuable
information on new hacks that attempt to exploit technical flaws, you'll
also learn how attackers take advantage of individuals via social networking
sites, and abuse vulnerabilities in wireless technologies and cloud
infrastructures. Written by seasoned Internet security professionals, this
book helps you understand the motives and psychology of hackers behind these
attacks, enabling you to better prepare and defend against them. * Learn how
"inside out" techniques can poke holes into protected networks * Understand
the new wave of "blended threats" that take advantage of multiple application
vulnerabilities to steal corporate data * Recognize weaknesses in today's
powerful cloud infrastructures and how they can be exploited * Prevent attacks
against the mobile workforce and their devices containing valuable data * Be
aware of attacks via social networking sites to obtain confidential information
from executives and their assistants * Get case studies that show how several
layers of vulnerabilities can be used to compromise multinational corporations

Nitesh Dhanjani, Billy Rios, Brett Hardin