Tighten holes and maintain security on your Linux system! From one of the authors of the international best-seller, Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, comes a must-have security handbook for anyone running Linux. This cutting-edge volume shows you how to think like a Linux hacker in order to beat the Linux hacker. You'll get detailed information on Linux-specific hacks, both internal and external, and how to stop them.
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Linux, like every other networkable OS, is vulnerable to a variety of local and remote attacks. Hacking Linux Exposed seeks to do two jobs: explain where the vulnerabilities lie and provide ways to minimise or eliminate the risks.
The authors' slightly breathless hands-on approach--coupled with the wealth of relevant technical detail--produces an unusually pacey read. Much of the spiciness comes from the emphasis on exploiting Linux's weaknesses. This is helped with lots of case studies of successful intrusions. You won't be in any doubt that you should be taking security seriously.
Much of the advice is common sense: use secure passwords, shadow password files, turn off unwanted services, set up an efficient firewall, apply security patches and so on. But the devil is in the detail. Successfully hardening a Linux system is non-trivial (as with other OS's). It's also an ongoing process. What really sets Hacking Linux Exposed apart is the way it walks you through each vulnerability and then explains the technical aspects of implementing a defense against it--converting to shadow password files, setting up IPChains, automating log file checking, testing your own security and more are all detailed.
Linux sysadmins will love this book. However, any Linux user with the confidence to edit a configuration file and a copy of Hacking Linux Exposed to hand can also have the hardest machine on the block. --Steve Patient
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"A comprehensive overview of Linux security in the popular Hacking-Exposed style. -- (Rain Forest Puppy (RFP), web server security authority and discoverer of the IIS MSADC vulnerability)
"Hacking Linux Exposed covers tried and true techniques to cutting-edge hacks and everything in between. If you are serious about Linux and security, buy this book. Period." -- Simple Nomad, author of The Hack FAQ and Pandora
"Hacking Linux Exposed is a highly organized and modular book that teaches the reader what to do before, during, and after an incident. It consolidates years of security administration experience into a single reference guide. It illustrates a procedure for securing a new installation, shows the reader how to recover from a break-in on an existing machine and presents a methodology for ongoing monitoring. Each chapter contains well-illustrated examples from real installations along with real solutions. Hacking Linux Exposed has taken a complex subject and broken it down into a format as useful for front-line Linux users as for corporate IT managers." -- Allen Leibowitz, CEO Anzen Computing, Inc. & Developer of the Anzen Flight Jacket Intrusion Detection System
"Knowing how attackers work and how a system can be broken into is the key to preventing unwanted break-ins. Hacking Linux Exposed strips away the 'black magic' image of hacking and sheds light on the prevention techniques that protect Linux systems from the ravages of attackers. This security book is a valuable asset for Linux administrators. You may find it frequently borrowed by fellow members of your staff and difficult to keep on your bookshelf." -- Christopher Klaus, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security Systems -ISS
"The rapidly expanding number of Linux machines on our campus combined with the open network of a university makes us an ideal target for hackers. The full disclosure policy of Hacking Linux Exposed allows security professionals and others who are interested in maintaining the security of their systems to observe how hackers penetrate a system and how to raise the bar to counter the attacks. If the sysadmins on our campus take advantage of this book, they will save themselves and our security team hours of work recovering from break-ins." -- Bob Bartlett, Assistant Director, Network Security & Enterprise, Network Server Administration of the University of Chicago, Illinois
"Hacking Linux Exposed covers tried and true techniques to cutting-edge hacks and everything in between. If you are serious about Linux and security, buy this book. Period." -- Simple Nomad, author of The Hack FAQ and Pandora
"Hacking Linux Exposed is a highly organized and modular book that teaches the reader what to do before, during, and after an incident. It consolidates years of security administration experience into a single reference guide. It illustrates a procedure for securing a new installation, shows the reader how to recover from a break-in on an existing machine and presents a methodology for ongoing monitoring. Each chapter contains well-illustrated examples from real installations along with real solutions. Hacking Linux Exposed has taken a complex subject and broken it down into a format as useful for front-line Linux users as for corporate IT managers." -- Allen Leibowitz, CEO Anzen Computing, Inc. & Developer of the Anzen Flight Jacket Intrusion Detection System
"Knowing how attackers work and how a system can be broken into is the key to preventing unwanted break-ins. Hacking Linux Exposed strips away the 'black magic' image of hacking and sheds light on the prevention techniques that protect Linux systems from the ravages of attackers. This security book is a valuable asset for Linux administrators. You may find it frequently borrowed by fellow members of your staff and difficult to keep on your bookshelf." -- Christopher Klaus, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Internet Security Systems -ISS
"The rapidly expanding number of Linux machines on our campus combined with the open network of a university makes us an ideal target for hackers. The full disclosure policy of Hacking Linux Exposed allows security professionals and others who are interested in maintaining the security of their systems to observe how hackers penetrate a system and how to raise the bar to counter the attacks. If the sysadmins on our campus take advantage of this book, they will save themselves and our security team hours of work recovering from break-ins." -- Bob Bartlett, Assistant Director, Network Security & Enterprise, Network Server Administration of the University of Chicago, Illinois
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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From A to Z, this book covers Linux security. It goes into more depth than any security book I've read (and that's about twenty at last count) including the biggies like Hacking Exposed itself. The authors really took the time to research the latest-greatest tools and attacks. They included a lot of the old standards, but mostly in passing, focusing on things that are still problems, not things that are old news like so many books. No Sendmail 8.8 exploits here, and good riddance.
I'd highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to see what a hacker actually does, down to the keystrokes themselves. Most importantly, you get clear easy steps to fix the problems. When there are multiple tools that you could use, they cover them in enough depth to let you know which is best for you and your skill level.
If you want to keep others off of your machine, this is the book to buy.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Just got second edition, can't put it down. Huge number of changes, all of them good. More backdoors, more network hacks, more sample code, more depth. Didn't think the first one could get better, I was very wrong.
5 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This is the book I always wanted when I would search the Internet for ways to learn how people get into computer systems and protect them. I have "Hacking Exposed" and with the migration from Windows 95 some time ago, I got this! I now enjoy using it as a very good reference and a kind of tool box. If your into Linux, you'll need this!
The price tag is good too!
Steven Simpson
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