Hacking: The Next Generation

Hacking: The Next Generation demonstrates just how hackers continue to exploit “back doors”. New ways of working and new ways of communicating have meant that the number of attack vectors continue to rise rapidly. This provides hackers with a greater number of opportunities to penetrate systems using blended approaches while organizations struggle to come up to speed with the latest technology developments and commensurate security capabilities. Dealing with anticipated threats is a lot harder than dealing with known threats.

Dhanjani, Rios and Hardin are skillful in their analysis of hacking in the next generation, providing coverage of classic traditional attacks, as well as emerging threats in the cloud, mobile devices, and social networking. Emphasis is placed on phishing attacks, targeted attacks versus opportunistic attacks, and the well-known but increasingly troublesome insider attacks. The threesome are especially equipped with security-related knowledge- Dhanjani now a senior manager at Ernst & Young was previously the senior director of Application Security and Assessments at Equifax, Rios is a security engineer with Microsoft, and Hardin

a security research Lead with McAfee.

On June 6, LinkedIn, the largest professional social network was hacked and 6.5 million unique hashed passwords appeared on a Russian cybercrime forum. Within the first 24 hours, it was purported that more than 200,000 passwords had been cracked. And not long after that, dating agency eHarmony and music site Lastfm.com also discovered that passwords of a

small fraction of its user base had been compromised. As individuals scramble to remember passwords for a diverse array of online applications, the possibility that anyone having access to the leaked passwords could penetrate personal accounts of other online applications was very high. This book does not shy away from dealing with potential security breaches of this magnitude, and demonstrates how hackers might go about orchestrating such an attack.

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