Gray Hat Hacking, 3rd Edition

721 Pages·2012·12.76 MB·English

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Gray Hat
Hacking
The Ethical Hacker’s
Handbook
Third Edition
Allen Harper, Shon Harris, Jonathan Ness,
Chris Eagle, Gideon Lenkey, and Terron Williams
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To my brothers and sisters in Christ, keep running the race. Let your light shine for Him,
that others may be drawn to Him through you. —Allen Harper
To my loving and supporting husband, David Harris, who has continual
patience with me as I take on all of these crazy projects! —Shon Harris
To Jessica, the most amazing and beautiful person I know. —Jonathan Ness
For my train-loving son Aaron, you bring us constant joy! —Chris Eagle
To Vincent Freeman, although I did not know you long, life has blessed us
with a few minutes to talk and laugh together. —Terron Williams
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Allen Harper, CISSP, PCI QSA, is the president and owner of N2NetSecurity, Inc. in
North Carolina. He retired from the Marine Corps after 20 years and a tour in Iraq.
Additionally, he has served as a security analyst for the U.S. Department of the Treasury,
Internal Revenue Service, and Computer Security Incident Response Center (IRS CSIRC).
He regularly speaks and teaches at conferences such as Black Hat and Techno.
Shon Harris, CISSP, is the president of Logical Security, an author, educator, and secu-
rity consultant. She is a former engineer of the U.S. Air Force Information Warfare unit
and has published several books and articles on different disciplines within informa-
tion security. Shon was also recognized as one of the top 25 women in information
security by Information Security Magazine.
Jonathan Ness, CHFI, is a lead software security engineer in Microsoft’s Security
Response Center (MSRC). He and his coworkers ensure that Microsoft’s security up-
dates comprehensively address reported vulnerabilities. He also leads the technical
response of Microsoft’s incident response process that is engaged to address publicly
disclosed vulnerabilities and exploits targeting Microsoft software. He serves one week-
end each month as a security engineer in a reserve military unit.
Chris Eagle is a senior lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the Naval Post-
graduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California. A computer engineer/scientist for
25 years, his research interests include computer network attack and defense, computer
forensics, and reverse/anti-reverse engineering. He can often be found teaching at Black
Hat or spending late nights working on capture the flag at Defcon.
Gideon Lenkey, CISSP, is the president and co-founder of Ra Security Systems, Inc., a
New Jersey–based managed services company, where he specializes in testing the infor-
mation security posture of enterprise IT infrastructures. He has provided advanced
training to the FBI and served as the president of the FBI’s InfraGard program in New
Jersey. He has been recognized on multiple occasions by FBI director Robert Muller for
his contributions and is frequently consulted by both foreign and domestic govern-
ment agencies. Gideon is a regular contributor to the Internet Evolution website and a
participant in the EastWest Institute’s Cybersecurity initiative.
Terron Williams, NSA IAM-IEM, CEH, CSSLP, works for Elster Electricity as a Senior Test
Engineer, with a primary focus on smart grid security. He formerly worked at Nortel as a
Security Test Engineer and VoIP System Integration Engineer. Terron has served on the
editorial board for Hakin9IT Security Magazine and has authored articles for it. His inter-
ests are in VoIP, exploit research, SCADA security, and emerging smart grid technologies.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this book are those of the authors and not of the
U.S. government or the Microsoft Corporation.
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