Hackers Beware

Summary

This chapter laid the groundwork for the steps an attacker would take to plan an attack. It also gave a roadmap for the rest of this book. Everything else that we cover fits into this picture. It is always important to remember that the sooner you can stop someone by limiting the information they gain or the sooner you can detect someone trying to get into your system, the more secure your network will be. The other key point is that even though what we covered in this chapter seems very straightforward, if you run it against another network without permission, it could be perceived as an offensive action against the site, and it could get you in a lot of trouble. From a security perspective, you should definitely run these steps against ...