What’s Covered In This Book
Throughout this book, we are going to cover a large number of exploits and how they work. There are some people that side with certain operating systems saying that one is more secure than another. The bottom line is default installations of most operating systems are not secure. It is up to the administrator to properly harden the machines before they go live. Unfortunately, very few people do this.
Because most operating systems have problems, throughout this book, I take a vendor-neutral approach. Whenever possible, I try to cover attack tools and exploits for both major platforms—UNIX (including Linux) and NT. For example, with port scanner, we will cover programs that work on both platforms. In other cases, however, ...
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