Security Power Tools
Dave Killion
Language: English
Pages: 860
ISBN: 0596009631
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
What if you could sit down with some of the most talented security engineers in the world and ask any network security question you wanted? Security Power Tools lets you do exactly that! Members of Juniper Networks' Security Engineering team and a few guest experts reveal how to use, tweak, and push the most popular network security applications, utilities, and tools available using Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and Unix platforms.
Designed to be browsed, Security Power Tools offers you multiple approaches to network security via 23 cross-referenced chapters that review the best security tools on the planet for both black hat techniques and white hat defense tactics. It's a must-have reference for network administrators, engineers and consultants with tips, tricks, and how-to advice for an assortment of freeware and commercial tools, ranging from intermediate level command-line operations to advanced programming of self-hiding exploits.
Security Power Tools details best practices for:
- Reconnaissance -- including tools for network scanning such as nmap; vulnerability scanning tools for Windows and Linux; LAN reconnaissance; tools to help with wireless reconnaissance; and custom packet generation
- Penetration -- such as the Metasploit framework for automated penetration of remote computers; tools to find wireless networks; exploitation framework applications; and tricks and tools to manipulate shellcodes
- Control -- including the configuration of several tools for use as backdoors; and a review of known rootkits for Windows and Linux
- Defense -- including host-based firewalls; host hardening for Windows and Linux networks; communication security with ssh; email security and anti-malware; and device security testing
- Monitoring -- such as tools to capture, and analyze packets; network monitoring with Honeyd and snort; and host monitoring of production servers for file changes
- Discovery -- including The Forensic Toolkit, SysInternals and other popular forensic tools; application fuzzer and fuzzing techniques; and the art of binary reverse engineering using tools like Interactive Disassembler and Ollydbg
A practical and timely network security ethics chapter written by a Stanford University professor of law completes the suite of topics and makes this book a goldmine of security information. Save yourself a ton of headaches and be prepared for any network security dilemma with Security Power Tools.
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With one of these tools, find several unsecured areas in your network, and then import the results into Core Impact in order to pinpoint the vulnerabilities and use the information to perform penetration testing. However, as mentioned, the tools in Core Impact can be used to perform all those discovery tasks in addition to the penetration testing. It is up to the network administrators to decide what works best for their network. Figure 9-3 presents the task tree selection for performing.
Risk. PermitRootLogin no It is good practice not to allow the root account direct access through the SSH server. If you need remote root access to the server, you should connect as a normal user and then escalade to root with su or sudo (Limiting Access). This way, you reduce the possible number of vulnerabilities. If only a few users are allowed to use the sudo command, you have a few accounts that allow compromising your system with just one password. Other user accounts require knowing.
Why do Nmap and Unicornscan differ? The answer has to do with the default ports. Default Port Ranges In How Scanners Work, we mentioned a simple scanner that scanned all ports, from 1 to 65535. The tools under discussion here are much more sophisticated and instead scan only a subset of possible ports based on which ports are most likely to be open. Certain ports, such as port 80, are much more likely to be open than, say, port 55312. While scanning for all potential ports is certainly.
Plug-in Code Example, Linux Command Line Norton Antivirus, Installation Test preprocessors, Excluding Authorized Scans Samhain, Samhain, Samhain, Samhain SpamAssassin, Inconvenient SSH, The Connection Layer STCPIO, Concealing the BO2k Protocol tar pits, Using Honeyd to Emulate a Network Tripwire, Tripwire, Tripwire UltraVNC, Creating and Packaging a VNC Backdoor WebProxy, Fuzzing Web Applications Connect scan (Nmap), An Example of Using Multiple Scan Types connection layer (SSH),.
Ettercap's port mode and basically blast the existing hosts out of the switch's internal MAC table. It is going to take some explaining to truly appreciate how this works. When you use ettercap's port mode, it floods the network with crafted ARP packets. Each packet has the source MAC set to a valid network host and the destination MAC set to your sniffer's interface. This accomplishes two tasks. First, you fool the switch into creating a connection for every host on the network and your network.