Stealing The Network

Appendix The Laws of Security

by Ryan Russell

This book contains a series of fictional short stories demonstrating criminal hacking techniques that are used every day. While these stories are fictional, the dangers are obviously real. As such, we’ve included this appendix, which discusses how to mitigate many of the attacks detailed in this book. While not a complete reference, these security laws can provide you with a foundation of knowledge to prevent criminal hackers from stealing your network…

Introduction

One of the shortcuts that security researchers use in discovering vulnerabilities is a mental list of observable behaviors that tells them something about the security of the system they are examining. If they can observe a particular ...