Network Security Tools

Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools

Nitesh Dhanjani, Justin Clarke - Collection Security

324 pages, parution le 09/05/2005

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Résumé

An advanced security professional knows that the battle to protect online privacy rages on. Security chat rooms, especially, resound with calls for vendors to take more responsibility to release more secure products. In fact, with all the information and code that is passed around on a daily basis, it's a fight that may never end. Fortunately, there are a number of open source security tools that give you an advantage in the battle.

Sometimes a security tool does exactly what you want, right out of the box. More frequently, you need to customize the tool to fit the needs of your network structure. Network Security Tools shows experienced administrators how to modify, customize, and extend popular open source security tools such as Nikto, Ettercap, and Nessus.

This concise, high-end guide discusses the common customizations and extensions for these tools, then shows you how to write even more specialized attack and penetration reviews that are suited to your unique network environment. It also explains how tools such as port scanners, packet injectors, network sniffers, and web assessment tools function.

Some of the topics covered include:

Writing your own network sniffers and packet injection tools
Writing plugins for Nessus, Ettercap, and Nikto
Developing exploits for Metasploit
Performing code analysis for web applications
Writing kernel modules for security applications
Understanding rootkits

While many books on security are either tediously academic or overly sensational, Network Security Tools takes an evenhanded and accessible approach, allowing you to review the problem quickly and to implement new, practical solutions-without reinventing the wheel. In an age when security is critical, Network Security Tools is the resource you want at your side when locking down your network.

Sommaire

Preface
Modifying and Hacking Security Tools
- Writing Plug-ins for Nessus
- Developing Dissectors and Plug-ins for the Ettercap Network Sniffer
- Extending Hydra and Nmap
- Writing Plug-ins for the Nikto Vulnerability Scanner
- Writing Modules for the Metasploit Framework
- Extending Code Analysis to the Webroot
Writing Network Security Tools
- Fun with Linux Kernel Modules
- Developing Web Assessment Tools and Scripts
- Automated Exploit Tools
- Writing Network Sniffers
- Writing Packet-Injection Tools
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	Nitesh Dhanjani, Justin Clarke
Collection	Security
Parution	09/05/2005
Nb. de pages	324
Format	18 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	566g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780596007942
ISBN13	978-0-596-00794-2