Hackers Beware

Chapter 17. Other Types of Attacks

So far we have gone over general types of attacks, such as session hijacking and spoofing, and attacks against specific operating systems, such as NT and UNIX. Now we will cover attacks that are important to understand, but are not covered in other chapters because they affect other services that are critical to the Internet or do not map to other categories of attacks. These include attacks against DNS and SNMP and tools that could represent a threat to your company, such as sniffers. By understanding these and the threat they pose to your company, you will be in a better position to protect against the vulnerabilities ...