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Analyze your company’s vulnerability to hacks with expert guidance from Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker’s Handbook. Discover advanced security tools and techniques such as fuzzing, reverse engineering, and binary scanning. Test systems using both passive and active vulnerability analysis. Learn to benefit from your role as a gray hat. Review ethical and legal issues and case studies. This unique resource provides leading-edge technical information being utilized by the top network engineers, security auditors, programmers, and vulnerability assessors. Plus, the book offers in-depth coverage of ethical disclosure and provides a practical course of action for those who find themselves in a "disclosure decision" position.
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- Series: All-In-One
- Paperback: 434 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 9, 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072257091
- ISBN-13: 978-0072257090
- Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
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'Gray Hat Hacking' (GHH) is positioned as a next-generation book for so-called ethical hackers, moving beyond the tool-centric discussions of books like 'Hacking Exposed.' The authors leave their definition of 'gray hat' unresolved until ch 3, where they claim that a 'white hat' is a person who 'uncovers a vulnerability and exploits it with authorization;' a 'black hat' is one who 'uncovers a vulnerability and illegally exploits it and/or tells others how to;' and a 'gray hat' is one who 'uncovers a vulnerability, does not illegally exploit it or tell others how to do it, but works with the vendor.' I disagree and prefer SearchSecurity.com's definitions, where white hats find vulnerabilities and tell vendors without providing public exploit code; black hats find vulnerabilities, code exploits, and maliciously attack victims; and gray hats find vulnerabilities, publish exploits, but do not illegally use them. According to these more common definitions, the book should have been called 'White Hat Hacking.' I doubt it would sell as well with that title!
Content-wise, the book mixes ethical and legal advice with tool overviews and technical information. Many reviewers note the good legal overview in ch 3, where I found the tables summarizing various laws to be helpful. The authors provide a sound rationale for penetration testing: 'Nothing should be trusted until it is tested' (p. 13). I enjoyed the disclosure discussion in ch 3 as well. I liked the brief tool descriptions of Core IMPACT, Immunity Security's CANVAS, and the Metasploit Framework. Some of the other discussions (e.g., Amap, P0f, Ettercap) didn't go deeper than already published explanations of those same tools.
This book is designed as a beyond Hacking Exposed type book. It certainly lives up to that by concentrating on more fundamental knowledge. Among it's strong points, this book is the most solid introduction to vulnerability discovery techniques I have seen. Another point to this books credit is that I was unable to find any errors in the examples I ran (about half)
The authors start out with a 4 chapters that discuss things like... what pen-testing is, ethics, legal issues. Some of the more useful discussions in this section include legal issues, and reporting vulnerabilities to vendors. Some of the less useful discussions include the difference between gray, white, and black hats. Omitted was discussion the true old schoool meaning of 'hacker.' The first 4 chapters rate three stars.
Chapters 5 and 6 discuss some cool tools including: p0f, amap, ettercap, xprobe2, metasploit, CANVAS, and IMACT. Enough information is included to get you going on each one. Also the underlying principles are discussed. Good chapters. Chapters 5 and 6 rate four stars.
Chapters 7 through 11 discuss: Programming, Linux Exploits, Shell Code, and Windows Exploits. The "Programming Survival Skills" chapter is a little light, but that can only be expected. These chapters are very well done, and this is the best section of the book. The explanations are very clear and concise. I tried many of the examples in these chapters, and they worked flawlessly. The authors attention to detail will make these chapters very valuable to those learning vulnerability research and discovery. The material here provides a solid foundation. Chapters 7 through 11 rate a strong five stars.
Chapters 12 through 15 discuss reverse engineering, writing exploits, and patching the holes.