Maximum Security : A Hacker's Guide to Protecting Your Internet Site and Network

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This book is written for system administrators who need to know how to keep their systems secure from unauthorized use. The anonymous author takes a hacker's view of various systems, focusing on how the system can be cracked and how you can secure the vulnerable areas.

The book makes it clear from the outset that you cannot rely on commercial software for security. Some of it is flawed, and even the best of it has to be used correctly to provide even the most basic security measures. The author scrutinizes such operating systems as Microsoft Windows, Unix, Novell, and Macintosh. He details many of the tools crackers use to attack the system, including several that have legitimate uses for system administration. Rather than merely cataloging areas of risk and showing how various flaws can be exploited, the author makes every effort to show how security holes can be avoided and remedied. Maximum Security tells you which software to avoid and then details which security tools are invaluable, providing the URLs necessary to acquire them. An enclosed CD-ROM provides links to many of the tools and resources discussed in the book. The CD-ROM also leads you to several online documents where you can learn more about Internet security in general and specifics for securing your own site. --Elizabeth Lewis

Book Description
Security continues to be the predominant concern for any company or organization that is either on the Internet now or considering it. Hardly a week passes where there isn't some new report of crackers breaking into computer systems at som -A controversial, comprehensive guide to Internet security written by a reformed hacker -Fully revised, updated and expanded to cover hundreds of new system holes, new developments in hacking techniques, and the latest security technologies -The first edition is currently the most popular computer security book on the market today

Synopsis
For programmers, system administrators, managers, security specialists--anyone interested in learning about weaknesses in Internet and computer system security and the ways to correct them--the revised and updated edition of this book discusses hundreds of computer "holes" and covers the latest techniques that hackers are using the crack computers and networks.

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