Ethical Hacking and Computer Securities For Beginners E-Book

Elaiya Iswera Lallan

• Herausgeber: Blue Micro Solutions
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 34

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

This book is written based on practical usage and research on computer security and networks. Basically everyone has strong concern about computer security networks where by it can sabotage the business and operations. It will be worse if the entire business operations are running on the website or web hosting company. This book covers practical approach on software tools for ethical hacking. Some of the software tools covered are SQL Injection, Password Cracking, port scanning, packet sniffing and etc. Performing ethical hacking requires certain steps and procedures to be followed properly. A good ethical hacker will find information, identify weakness and finally perform some attacks on the target machine. Then the most crucial part would be to produce a good security audit report for the clients to understand their computer network conditions. This book also explains and demonstrates step by step most of the software security tools for any beginners in the computer security field. Some of the software tools have been selected and utilized in computer security trainings and workshops.

Leseprobe

Contents

Foreword

About the Author

Chapter 1 : What is Ethical Hacking?

Chapter 2 : Finding Informations

2.2 WHOIS

Access information at www.internic.net/whois.html

Access information at www.whois.net

Installing and Accessing Information from SAM...

2.3 Nslookup

2.4 ARIN

2.5 Neo Trace

2.6 VisualRoute

Chapter 3 : Identifying Weakness

3.2 NMAP

3.3 NetScan

3.4 Webcruiser

3.5 GFI LandGuard

3.6 What is Wireshark and Ethereal?

Chapter 4 : Performing Attacks

4.2 Denial of Service

4.3 Password Cracking

4.4 Perform Phishing Attacks

4.7 Buffer Overflow

Chapter 5 : Ethical Hackers Important Tasks

5.1 Incident Forms

5.2 Computer Security Reports

Foreword

This book is written based on practical usage and research on computer security and networks. Basically everyone has strong concern about computer security networks where by it can sabotage the business and operations. It will be worse if the entire business operations are running on the website or web hosting company.

This book covers practical approach on software tools for ethical hacking. Some of the software tools covered are SQL Injection, Password Cracking, port scanning, packet sniffing and etc. Performing ethical hacking requires certain steps and procedures to be followed properly. A good ethical hacker will find information, identify weakness and finally perform some attacks on the target machine. Then the most crucial part would be to produce a good security audit report for the clients to understand their computer network conditions.

This book also explains and demonstrates step by step most of the software security tools for any beginners in the computer security field. Some of the software tools have been selected and utilized in computer security trainings and workshops.

About The Author

Mr Elaiya Iswera Lallan has been in the IT Industry for the past 12 years. He is the Managing Director of Blue Micro Solutions, which is based in SIRIM Bhd (Governmnet agency) .

Mr Lallan has extensive experience in the IT industry. He has recieved an award as a Federal Territory Entrepreneur. After obtaining his Bachelor Degree in Computers and Electronics Engineering from Kolej Bandar Utama (twinning program with University of Nottingham) in year 2001, he joined the company called MIR as a Information Technology Consultant .

He was performing computer programming tasks, and then joined as a software engineer in a new company called Neural Manufacturing Sdn Bhd. He had his best of experiences here when he was creating software technologies for the company’s flagship product called e-Jari, which is a biometric security device. He created an enterprise time attendance system for this device that can be used by other companies ranging from SMEs to government offices. Some of the companies using this time attendance system are PejabatTanah & Galian in Kuala Lumpur, Koperasi Malaysia, Bernama and ITIS. He also created a Guard Patrol and Intruder Detection System using the e-Jari, and was involved in the ISO9000:2001 certification for the company.With his extensive working experience and good track record of able to handle mega IT projects in government sector, Mr Lallan managed to join the incubatorship program under SIRIM Bhd in February 2010. With this Mr Lallan moved Blue Micro Solutions’ operations into the SIRIM building. He obtained certification from Ministry of Finance in Malaysia in the software fields where he can participate in tenders for government IT projects. He also started employing staffs to do IT projects and ventured into IT trainings in private corporations, government institutions and polytechnics, such as SKALI Bhd, Kolej Komuniti in Klang, Politeknik Ungku Omar in Ipoh and Politeknik Kuching in Sarawak. He has made Blue Micro Solutions to be a certified Human Resource Development Funds (HRDF) training provider to companies in Malaysia. With his proven track record in both the industrial and education worlds in IT, Mr Lallan has been awarded collaboration with Open University Malaysia (OUM) to offer affordable IT degree program to the public recently. Currently Mr Lallan is pursuing MSC status for his company Blue Micro Solutions.