Hack Proofing Your Network

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'Hack Proofing Your Network'

Syngress Publishing Publishes 'Hack Proofing Your Network'; Ryan
Russell and Contributing Hackers to Unveil Hacking Book at Defcon 2000

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 27, 2000--Syngress Publishing, Inc.,
today announced the publication of "Hack Proofing Your Network:
Internet Tradecraft" by Ryan Russell and with contributing grey-hat
hackers such as "Mudge," "Rain Forest Puppy," "Caezar," "Effugas," and
"Blue Boar." The premise of the book is "The only way to stop a hacker
is to think like one." It provides a tour of information security from
the hacker's perspective and offers practical advice for fending off
local and remote network attacks. The book is divided into four parts
on theory and ideals, local attacks, remote attacks, and reporting.

Amy Pedersen, Publisher, Syngress Publishing, said, "While most of us
do not know about the techniques of hackers, such as 'blind spoofing,'
'smashing the stack,' and 'buffer overflow,' we do know that hacking
and virus attacks are on the increase and that we need to protect
ourselves from them. Ryan Russell and this team of hackers and
security experts explain the theory of hacking and show how to protect
servers from attack."

Chapter topics include: Classes of Attack, Methodology, Diffing,
Cryptography, Unexpected Input, Buffer Overflow, Sniffing, Session
Hijacking, Spoofing, Server Holes, Client Holes, Viruses and Trojan
Horses, and Reporting Security Problems. The book includes a foreword
by Mudge, the security advisor to the White House and Congress, and
former CEO and Chief Scientist of the renowned hacker think-tank the
L0pht. He is considered the nation's leading grey-hat hacker.

"We are extremely excited about Ryan's book, said Art Wong, CEO of
SecurityFocus.com, "Ryan has continually focused on educating our
users and 'Hack Proofing Your Network' is another innovative way to
help them achieve their goals and protect their assets."

Author Information

Ryan Russell is MIS Manager at SecurityFocus.com. He has served as an
expert witness on security topics and has performed internal security
investigation for a major software vendor. Ryan has contributed to
three Syngress books on networking topics.

Stace Cunningham, technical editor, is a security consultant and holds
MCSE, CCNA, CMISS, CLSE, COS/2E, CLSI, and CLSA certifications. He has
helped many clients, including a casino, implement network security
plans.


Contributing writers include: Rain Forest Puppy; Elias Levy, Bugtraq
moderator; Blue Boar, Vuln-dev moderator; Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky,
Cisco Systems; Oliver Friedrichs, SecurityFocus.com; Riley "Caezar"
Eller, Internet Security Advisors; Greg Hoglund, Click To Secure,
Jeremy Rauch, and Georgi Guninski.

Berislav Kucan aka BHZ
bhz () net-security org
http://net-security.org

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