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Gain hands-on experience of CCNP Remote Access topics with lab scenarios for the new 642-821 BCRAN exam.

• Prepare for the CCNP 642-821 BCRAN exam and gain a better, practical understanding of exam concepts
• Experience how remote access concepts work in a real network with practice labs that walk you through their implementation
• Review set-up guides that show you how to prepare a lab for study
• Ready yourself for the new simulation-based questions on the CCNP exams

CCNP Practical Studies: Remote Access (CCNP Self-Study) prepares readers for the CCNP 642-821 BCRAN exam and for workplace challenges in implementing remote access network applications. Designed as a topic-by-topic guide of how to apply remote access concepts in a real network setting, this book is useful in preparing a CCNP candidate for the general exam questions by providing a better understanding of how remote access really works. It is also essential in preparing candidates for the new simulation-based questions that are on the Cisco certification exams. Finally, it serves anyone wanting a guide to real-world application of these concepts, regardless of certification interest.

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Why PC Hacks?
The term hacking has a bad reputation in the press. They use it to refer to someone who breaks into systems or wreaks havoc with computers as their weapon. Among people who write code, though, the term hack refers to a “quick-and-dirty” solution to a problem or a clever way to get something done. And the term hacker is taken very much as a compliment, indicating that someone is being creative, having the technical chops to get things done. The Hacks series is an attempt to reclaim the word, document the good ways people are hacking, and pass the hacker ethic of creative participation on to the uninitiated. Seeing how others approach systems and problems is often the quickest way to learn about a new technology.

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WARNING: This book is not to be used for hacking into government computers, shutting down AOL, cracking software, phone phreaking, spreading viruses, or any other illegal activity. Is your computer safe from computer viruses and malicious hackers? No matter how secure you think your computer is, it’s still vulnerable to a variety of attacks that can ruin your files or hoodwink you out of thousands of dollars. This newly revised third edition of the best-selling Steal This Computer Book will help you protect yourself. You’ll discover:

• How to tackle spyware, web bugs, and adware—seemingly innocent programs that harvest your private information
• How hackers hide their identities and shred their files
• How hackers write computer viruses and worms
• How Trojan Horse programs work and how to defend against them
• How hackers steal software and defeat copy protection mechanisms
• How to fight back against spammers
• How to tell when your machine is being attacked and what you can do to protect it
• Where the hackers are, how they probe a target and sneak into a computer and what they do when they get there

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Preface
These days, software vulnerabilities are announced to the public before vendors have a chance to provide a patch to customers. Therefore, it has become important, if not absolutely necessary, for an organization to routinely assess its network to measure its security posture.
But how does one go about performing a thorough network assessment? Network security books today typically teach you only how to use the out-of-the-box functionality provided by existing network security tools, which is often limited. Malicious attackers, however, are sophisticated enough to understand that the real power of the most popular network security tools does not lie in their out-of-the-box functionality, but in the framework that allows you to extend and tweak their functionality. These sophisticated attackers also know how to quickly write their own tools to break into remote networks. The aim of this book is to teach you how to tweak existing and powerful open source assessment tools and how to write your own tools to protect your networks and data from the most experienced attackers.

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Preface
Windows XP marks the biggest change to the Windows OS since the advent of Windows 95. It combines the stability of the NT/2000 operating system with the user-friendliness and hardware support of the consumer Windows line—and it does so literally, because those two operating systems have been combined for the first time in XP. Although there are two versions of XP—Home Edition and Professional Edition—the differences between them are relatively minor and have to do primarily with security and administrator tools. Under the hood, they’re the same OS.

XP marks several other change as well. DOS is no longer a part of the underlying OS, although it’s still available as a command prompt. Multimedia and graphics have been built into the operating system more directly than before and are no longer treated as an afterthought. And, cosmetically, XP has been given a makeover, in both the way it looks (rounded windows and almost cartoonish at times) and the way it works.

All this is good news for would-be operating system hackers. Because of the operating system’s greater stability, those who work under the hood of XP can concentrate on actually getting work done and making the OS more effective, rather than trying to fix its shortcomings. Because of the richer interface and greater support for graphics and multimedia, you can more easily change the way the operating system works and looks. And, because the OS offers a variety of tools for recovering from errors, you can hack to your heart’s content without worrying that you’ll damage the OS beyond recognition.

This collection is based on the hands-on, real-world experience of those who in many cases have been using PCs well before any version of Windows even existed. They have wrestled with each new version of Windows as it was released, and found ways to take advantage of every nook and cranny of the operating system. When XP came out, they applied that hard-earned knowledge to it as well, and came up with ways to take advantage of the myriad new features of the operating system.

The results is 100 hacks that are useful, frequently entertaining, and will save you countless hours at the keyboard. Whether you want to speed up your PC, customize XP’s interface, hack your wired and wireless network, get more out of the Web, make better use of email, use the Registry to bend the operating system to your will, or use XP for countless other useful tasks, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. And each hack doesn’t just show you how to do something; it also teaches why it works. Each hack is a starting point, rather than an ending point, so that you can apply the knowledge you’ve gained to create new hacks of your own. Try it out—who knows, in the next edition of this book, you may get a hack of your own published.

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The practical guide to simulating, detecting, and responding to network attacks

Overview:

• Assess your network’s defensive strengths and eliminate vulnerabilities with proven internal testing methodologies
• Learn how to perform simulated attacks on live networks
• Detect network attacks using the Cisco Intrusion Detection Sensor and Security Agent
• A complete real-world case study shows a step-by-step process for conducting your own penetration tests

Security threats are on the rise, and companies must be prepared against them. The one way companies are assessing security risk and the vulnerability of their networks is by hiring security firms to attempt to penetrate their networks or by developing their own penetration testing skills to gradually or always monitoring network vulnerabilities. Penetration testing and security aspect is a growing field, however there is no definite resources on how to perform a penetration test and testing ethically. Penetration Testing and Cisco Network Defense offers detailed steps on how to emulate any outsider attacker to penetrate the security of your network. Unlike other hacking books, this book is specifically geared toward penetration testing, so you will know how the hacking process is work practically rather than just a theory. The book divided into two parts, one part is provide a set of guidelines and methodologies for understanding and the other part is performing internal penetration tests. It will also shows you how an attack can be detected on a network by using Intrusion Detection System. Part one also covering understanding penetration testing, assessing risks, and creating a testing plan. Part two also focuses on penetration testing, and each chapter includes three essential components: 1. Perform a simulated attack using popular commercial products or open source applications; 2. Learn to detect the attack with Cisco Intrusion Detection Sensor and Security Agent; 3. Tips and Tricks on how to harden a system against such attacks.
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Content of Index
1. Real World Wireless Security
2. Under Siege
3. Putting the Gear Together: 802.11 Hardware
4. Making the Engine Run: 802.11 Drivers and Utilities
5. Learning to WarDrive: Network Mapping and Site Surveying
6. Assembling the Arsenal: Tools of the Trade
7. Planning the Attack
8. Breaking Through
9. Looting and Pillaging: The Enemy Inside
10. Building the Citadel: An Introduction to Wireless LAN Defence
11. Introduction to Applied Cryptography: Symmetric Ciphers
12. Cryptographic Data Integrity Protection, Key Exchange, and User Authentication Mechanisms
13. The Fortress Gates: User Authentication in Wireless Security
14. Guarding the Airwaves: Deploying Higher-Layer Wireless VPNs
15. Counterintelligence: Wireless IDS Systems
Appendix A: Decibel-Watts Conversion Table
Appendix B: 802.11 Wireless Equipment
Appendix C: Antenna Irradiation Patterns
Appendix D: Wireless Utilities Manpages
Appendix E: Signal Loss for Obstacle Types
Appendix F: Warchalking Signs
Appendix G: Wireless Penetration Testing Template
Appendix H: Default SSIDs for Several Common 802.11 Products
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This book is a compulsory to learn the basic of hacking and the hacking definition myth itself. It includes internet penetration, dial-in penetration, testing internal penetration, Social Engineering, UNIX Methods, The tool kit for hacking, Automated Vulnerability Scanners, Discovery tools, Port Scanners, Sniffers, Password crackers, Windows NT Tools, Remote control, Intrusion Detection System, Firewalls, DOS Attacks. You can download the Ebook in CHM format freely here.

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This book will teach you about Linux server, learn how to installing web server, access control, network addressing, file transfer, administration, samba, Email server, sendmail, backup and restoring data, and etc, but including how to tighten its security aspects in chapter “Advice from a Hacker”. The administration Read the rest of this entry »

Plot:

Thirty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack or the advance giant technology. Neither both came in time. But instead, the aliens were refugees, the last survivors of their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa’s District 9 as the world’s nations argued over what to do with them. Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens’ welfare. As the private company will receive GREAT profits if they can make the aliens sophisticated weaponry work. So far, they have failed. The activation of the weapon requires alien DNA. The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head.

Summary:

An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent that is exposed to their biotechnology.

Rating: 8.6

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