Securing Your Business with Cisco ASA and PIX Firewalls

Attackers

A wise and prudent course of action is to become familiar with the people who pose a threat to you and your business and not underestimate them.

Those who are responsible for network attacks are known by several different names. The most common are hackers, crackers, phreaks, or attackers. This book uses the term hacker and attacker interchangeably. Attackers are those who attempt to run software with malicious intent on or against a network device that doesn't belong to them.

The sophistication of attackers ranges from people who are elite programmers to people who download and run well-documented scripts. Script downloaders are often referred to as script kiddies. Don't make the mistake of thinking that a script kiddie, who is not ...