Chapter 15. Techniques Used by Attackers

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

Image Understand the basic techniques used by hackers.

Image Be able to formulate strategies to defend against common attacks.

Image Understand how to use some hacking tools.

Introduction

This book is about network defense. However, I am a strong proponent of the idea that you should “know your enemy.” Put another ...

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