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Hacking Exposed 7, 7th Edition
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Hacking Exposed 7, 7th Edition

by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz
July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
21h 47m
English
McGraw-Hill
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APPENDIX BTOP 10 SECURITY VULNERABILITIES

1. Weak Passwords Weak, easily guessed, and reused passwords can doom your security. Test accounts have poor passwords and little monitoring. Do not reuse passwords across your systems or Internet sites.

2. Unpatched Software Software that is unpatched, outdated, vulnerable, or left in the default configurations. Most breaches can be avoided by rolling patches as soon as practical and tested.

3. Unsecured Remote Access Points Unsecured and unmonitored remote access points provide one of the easiest means of access to your corporate network. One of the greatest pain points are former employee accounts that have not been disabled.

4. Information Leakage Information leakage can provide the attacker with ...

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