The stories about phishing attacks against banks are so true-to-life, it's chilling." --Joel Dubin, CISSP, Microsoft MVP in Security

Every day, hackers are devising new ways to break into your network. Do you have what it takes to stop them? Find out in Hacker's Challenge 3. Inside, top-tier security experts offer 20 brand-new, real-world network security incidents to test your computer forensics and response skills. All the latest hot-button topics are covered, including phishing and pharming scams, internal corporate hacking, Cisco IOS, wireless, iSCSI storage, VoIP, Windows, Mac OS X, and UNIX/Linux hacks, and much more. Each challenge includes a detailed explanation of the incident--how the break-in was detected, evidence and clues, technical background such as log files and network maps, and a series of questions for you to solve. In Part II, you'll get a detailed analysis of how the experts solved each incident.

• Challenges
  • To catch a phish
  • Owning the pharm
  • Big bait, big phish
  • Shooting phish in a barrel
  • Too few secrets
  • Upgraded or "owned?"
  • Pale blue glow
  • Crossing the line
  • The root of the problem
  • Firewall insights
  • Peter LemonJello's "a series of unfortunate events"
  • Share and share alike
  • The Holy Grail
  • Open source
  • Cup of chai
  • Love plus one
  • Bullet the blue sky
  • The insider III
  • Jumping someone else's train
  • The not-so-usual suspects
• Solutions
  • To catch a phish
  • Owning the pharm
  • Big bait, big phish
  • Shooting phish in a barrel
  • Too few secrets
  • Upgraded or "owned?"
  • Pale blue glow
  • Crossing the line
  • The root of the problem
  • Firewall insights
  • Peter LemonJello's "a series of unfortunate events"
  • Share and share alike
  • The Holy Grail
  • Open source
  • Cup of chai
  • Love plus one
  • Bullet the blue sky
  • The insider III
  • Jumping someone else's train
  • The not-so-usual suspects