Hacking Exposed: Malware & Rootkits Secrets & Solutions
<p>"A harrowing guide to where the bad guys hide, and how you can find them." --Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing, IOActive <p>"An amazing resource. It is timely, focused, and what we need to better understand and defend against one of the greatest cyber threats we face." --From the Foreword by Lance Spitzner, President of the Honeynet Project <p><strong>Don't let another machine become a zombie in the malware army</strong></p><p>Defend against the ongoing wave of malware and rootkit assaults the failsafe Hacking Exposed way. Real-world case studies and examples reveal how today's hackers use readily available tools to infiltrate and hijack systems. Step-by-step countermeasures provide proven prevention techniques. Find out how to detect and eliminate malicious embedded code, block pop-ups and websites, prevent keylogging, and terminate rootkits. The latest intrusion detection, firewall, honeynet, antivirus, anti-rootkit, and anti-spyware technologies are covered in detail. </p><ul><li>Understand how malware infects, survives, and propagates across an enterprise</li><li>Learn how hackers use archivers, encryptors, and packers to obfuscate code</li><li>Implement effective intrusion detection and prevention procedures</li><li>Defend against keylogging, redirect, click fraud, and identity theft threats</li><li>Detect, kill, and remove virtual, user-mode, and kernel-mode rootkits </li><li>Prevent malicious website, phishing, client-side, and embedded-code exploits</li><li>Protect hosts using the latest antivirus, pop-up blocker, and firewall software</li><li><div>Identify and terminate malicious processes using HIPS and NIPS</div></li></ul>