Hackers Beware

Purpose of This Book

The point of this book is to show you that there is no way to properly protect a your company’s network unless you know what you are up against. Only by understanding how attacks work and what an attacker does to compromise a machine can a company position itself so that it can be properly protected. Knowing what an attacker can do to compromise your system and what it looks like on a network is the only way to build a secure system.

Even though this book goes into techniques used to hack a machine and perform common exploits, it is not meant for this purpose. It is meant to help a company properly close up its vulnerabilities and protect its computers. This will become evident when we go into specific exploits, because ...