Hackers Beware

Summary

This chapter helped emphasize that vulnerabilities to a company’s network can exist anywhere and no system is safe. Even systems that were meant to increase security can decrease the security, which was shown with the DNS NXT exploit. Software that a company uses to monitor its network and to provide reliable service can be used against it if security is ignored. This was illustrated with the SNMP exploit.

The key point a company has to remember is that it must know what is running on all its systems and stay up to speed as much as possible. If a vulnerability is publicly available, and the attackers know about it but your company does not, you are going to be in serious trouble from a security perspective. Ideally, knowing every piece ...