The development of net-centric approaches for intelligence and national security applications has become a major concern in many areas such as defense, intelligence and national and international law enforcement agencies. In this volume we consider the web architectures and recent developments that make n- centric approaches for intelligence and national security possible. These include developments in information integration and recent advances in web services including the concept of the semantic web. Discovery, analysis and management of web-available data pose a number of interesting challenges for research in w- based management systems. Intelligent agents and data mining are some of the techniques that can be employed. A number of specific systems that are net-centric based in various areas of military applications, intelligence and law enforcement are presented that utilize one or more of such techniques The opening chapter overviews the concepts related to ontologies which now form much of the basis of the possibility of sharing of information in the Semantic Web. In the next chapter an overview of Web Services and examples of the use of Web Services for net-centric operations as applied to meteorological and oceanographic (MetOc) data is presented and issues related to the Navy's use of MetOc Web Services are discussed. The third chapter focuses on metadata as conceived to support the concepts of a service-oriented architecture and, in particular, as it relates to the DoD Net-Centric Data Strategy and the NCES core services.

Security is one of the most significant issues facing the owners and users of computer systems in the Internet age, and recent years have convincingly illustrated that the problem is increasing in both scale and cost.

Computer Insecurity: Risking the System approaches its topic from the perspective of vulnerability a" how can your system be attacked? Covering technical issues and human factors, the comprehensively researched text makes reference to numerous real-life security incidents, which help to provide persuasive practical evidence of the problems and the impacts that result.

Key issues covered include:

• the problem of computer insecurity
• the need to raise security awareness
• common failings that compromise protection
• the attack and exploitation of systems
• considerations in responding to the threats

Presented in clear and lucid terms, the discussion is invaluable reading for all business and computing professionals who wish for an overview of the issues rather than a shopping list of the security measures available.

a ~In todaya (TM)s connected world no-one can afford to ignore computer security, this book tells you why, and what you should do about it, in simple non-technical language.a (TM)

Dr Jeremy Ward, Director of Service Development, Symantec (UK) Ltd

a ~Computer Insecurity contains loads of practical advice supported by an abundance of real world examples and research. If you dona (TM)t understand what all the fuss concerning computer security is about then this book was written for you.a (TM)Jeff Crume, CISSP

Executive IT Security Architect, IBM and author of a ~Inside InternetSecurity a" What hackers dona (TM)t want you to knowa (TM)

a ~I have long been looking for a book that would give answers to why rather than how we cater for Information and Communication Systems Security ... I recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone that wishes to extend their knowledgea (TM)

Professor Sokratis K. Katsikas, University of the Aegean, Greece

"Machine Learning and Data Mining for Computer Security" provides an overview of the current state of research in machine learning and data mining as it applies to problems in computer security. This book has a strong focus on information processing and combines and extends results from computer security.

The first part of the book surveys the data sources, the learning and mining methods, evaluation methodologies, and past work relevant for computer security. The second part of the book consists of articles written by the top researchers working in this area. These articles deals with topics of host-based intrusion detection through the analysis of audit trails, of command sequences and of system calls as well as network intrusion detection through the analysis of TCP packets and the detection of malicious executables.

This book fills the great need for a book that collects and frames work on developing and applying methods from machine learning and data mining to problems in computer security.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 8th International Information - curity Conference (ISC 2005), which took place in Singapore, from 20th to 23rd September 2005. ISC 2005 brought together individuals from academia and - dustry involvedin manyresearchdisciplines of information security to foster the exchange of ideas. During recent years this conference has tried to place special emphasis on the practical aspects of information security, and since it passed from being an international workshop to being an international conference in 2001, it has become one of the most relevant forums at which researchers meet and discuss emerging security challenges and solutions. Advised by the ISC Steering Committee, and in order to provide students with more opportunities for publication, ISC 2005 accepted extra student papers - sides the regular papers. The initiative was very well accepted by the young sector of the scienti?c community, and we hope that the success of this idea will remainfornextISCevents. AnotherimportantfactorforthesuccessofISC2005 was that selected papers in the proceedings will be invited for submission to a special issue of the InternationalJournalof InformationSecurity. The result was an incredible response to the call for papers; we received 271 submissions, the highest since ISC events started. It goes without saying that the paper selection process was more competitive and di?cult than ever before - only 33 regular papers were accepted, plus 5 student papers for a special student session.

The increasing relevance of security to real-life applications, such as electronic commerce and Internet banking, is attested by the fast-growing number of - search groups, events, conferences, and summer schools that address the study of foundations for the analysis and the design of security aspects. The Int- national School on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design (FOSAD, see http: //www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad/)has been one of the foremost events - tablishedwiththegoalofdisseminatingknowledgeinthiscriticalarea, especially for young researchers approaching the ?eld and graduate students coming from less-favoured and non-leading countries. The FOSAD school is held annually at the Residential Centre of Bertinoro (http: //www.ceub.it/), in the fascinating setting of a former convent and ep- copal fortress that has been transformed into a modern conference facility with computing services and Internet access. Since the ?rst school, in 2000, FOSAD hasattractedmorethan250participantsand50lecturersfromallovertheworld. A collection of tutorial lectures from FOSAD 2000 was published in Springer s LNCS volume 2171. Some of the tutorials given at the two successive schools (FOSAD 2001 and 2002) are gathered in a second volume, LNCS 2946. To c- tinue this tradition, the present volume collects a set of tutorials fromthe fourth FOSAD, held in 2004, and from FOSAD 2005."

Mycrypt 2005 was the inaugural international conference on cryptology hosted in Malaysia. The conference was co-organized by the Information Security - search Lab at Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus), NISER (National ICT Security and Emergency Response Centre) and INSPEM (Ins- tute for MathematicalResearch)at UPM (UniversityPutra Malaysia).Mycrypt 2005 was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia during September 28-30 2005, in conjunction with the e-Secure Malaysia 2005 convention. Therewere90paper submissionsfrom23 countriescoveringall areasof cr- tologic research, from which 19 were accepted. We would like to extend our thanks to all authors who submitted papers to Mycrypt 2005. Each paper was sentanonymouslytoatleast3membersoftheInternationalProgramCommittee for reviews and comments. The review comments were then followed by disc- sions among the Program Committee. A recipient of the Best Paper Award was also selected after voting among Program Committee members. The winning paper was "Distinguishing Attacks on T-functions" by Simon Kunzli ] (FH A- gau, Swizerland), Pascal Junod (Nagravision SA, Switzerland) and Willi Meier (FH Aargau, Swizerland). These proceedings contain revised versions of all the accepted papers. The conference program included three keynote papers: Hideki Imai (Tokyo University)presenteda paper entitled "TrendsandChallenges forSecurer Cr- tography in Practice." Moti Yung (Columbia University) presented a paper entitled "E?cient Secure Group Signatures with Dynamic Joins and Keeping Anonymity Against Group Managers." Colin Boyd (QUT) presented a paper entitled "Security of Two-Party Identity-Based Key Agreement." We are extremely grateful for the time and e?ort of all the members of the Program Committee in the review process. Their names may be found overleaf."

It is our great pleasure to present the proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security (CMS 2005), which washeld in Salzburg on September 19-21,2005.Continuing the tradition of p- vious CMS conferences, we sought a balanced program containing presentations on various aspects of secure communication and multimedia systems. Special emphasis was laid on papers with direct practical relevance for the construction of secure communication systems. The selection of the program was a challenging task. In total, we received 143 submissions, from which 28 were selected for presentation as full papers. In addition to these regular presentations, the CMS conference featured for the ?rst time a "work in progress track" that enabled authors to report preliminary results and ongoing work. These papers were presented in the form of a poster sessionduringtheconference;anextendedabstractofthepostersappearsinthis proceedings volume. From all papers submitted to the CMS conference, the p- gramcommitteechose13 submissionsfor inclusionin theworkinprogresstrack. In addition to regular presentations, CMS 2005 featured a special session on XMLsecurity, containingbothcontributedandinvitedtalks.Thisspecialsession was jointly organized by Rudig ] er Grimm (TU Ilmenau, Germany) and J] org Schwenk (Ruhr-Universit] at Bochum, Germany). Their assistance in organizing CMS 2005 was greatly appreciated."

* Only up to date book for the latest version of .NET * Concentrates on Web services not general .NET security * Describes the key aspects of Windows Operating System security, Internet Information Services security, and ASP.NET Security, laying the foundation for a complete discussion of Web Services security in the .NET Platform. * Shows how to use the WS-Security W3C specifications for industry - standard authentication, encryption, authorization, Xml signature, attachments and routing with Web Services. * Teaches the reader how to use the new WSE (Web Services Software Development Kit) from Microsoft. * Shows how to integrate Web Services security into the applications developers write with specific working code examples and explanations.

A fascinating work on the history and development of cryptography, from the Egyptians to WWII. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork Contents Include - The Beginings of Cryptography - From the Middle Ages Onwards - Signals, Signs, And Secret Languages - Commercial Codes - Military Codes and Ciphers - Types of Codes and Ciphers - Methods of Deciphering - Bibliography

Foreword from the Program Chairs These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the 10th - ropean Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), held S- tember 12 14, 2005 in Milan, Italy. In response to the call for papers 159 papers were submitted to the conf- ence. These paperswere evaluated on the basis of their signi?cance, novelty, and technical quality. Each paper was reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The program committee meeting was held electronically, holding intensive discussion over a period of two weeks. Of the papers subm- ted, 27 were selected for presentation at the conference, giving an acceptance rate of about 16%. The conference program also includes an invited talk by Barbara Simons. There is a long list of people who volunteered their time and energy to put together the symposiom and who deserve acknowledgment. Thanks to all the members of the program committee, and the external reviewers, for all their hard work in evaluating and discussing papers. We are also very grateful to all those people whose work ensured a smooth organizational process: Pierangela Samarati, who served as General Chair, Claudio Ardagna, who served as P- licity Chair, Dieter Gollmann who served as Publication Chair and collated this volume, and Emilia Rosti and Olga Scotti for helping with local arrangements. Last, but certainly not least, our thanks go to all the authors who submitted papers and all the attendees. We hope you ?nd the program stimulating."

We are delighted to welcome the attendees of the Fourth International Wo- shop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW). Watermarking continues to generate strong academic interest. Commercialization of the technology is proceeding at a steadypace. We haveseen watermarkingadoptedfor DVD audio.Fingerpri- ing technology was successfully used to determine the source of pirated video material. Furthermore, a number of companies are using watermarking as an enabling technology for broadcast monitoring services. Watermarking of digital cinema contentis anticipated. Future applications may also come from areas- related to digital rights management. For example, the use of watermarking to enhance legacy broadcast and communication systems is now being considered. IWDW 2005 o?ers an opportunity to re?ect upon the state of the art in digital watermarking as well as discuss directions for future research and applications. This year we accepted 31 papers from 74 submissions. This 42% acceptance rate indicates our commitment to ensuring a very high quality conference. We thankthemembersoftheTechnicalProgramCommitteeformakingthispossible by their timely and insightful reviews. Thanks to their hard work this is the ?rst IWDW at which the ?nal proceedings are available to the participants at the time of the workshop as a Springer LNCS publication.

Althoughcryptographyandsecuritytechniqueshavebeenaroundfor quitesome time, emerging technologies such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intel- gence that exploit increasingly interconnected networks, mobility and pers- alization put new requirements on security with respect to data management. As data is accessible anytime anywhere, according to these new concepts, it - comes much easier to get unauthorized data access. Furthermore, it becomes simpler to collect, store, and search personal information and endanger people's privacy. Therefore, researchin the area of secure data management is of growing importance, attracting the attention of both the data management and security researchcommunities.Theinterestingproblemsrangefromtraditionalones, such as access control (with all variations, like dynamic, context-aware, role-based), database security (e.g., e?cient database encryption schemes, search over - crypted data, etc.), and privacy-preserving data mining to controlled sharing of data. In addition to the aforementioned subject, this year we also called for - pers devoted to secure data management in healthcare as a domain where data security and privacy issues are traditionally important. The call for papers - tracted 38 papers both from universities and industry. The ProgramCommittee selected 16 research papers for presentation at the workshop. These papers are also collected in this volume which we hope will serve you as a useful research and reference material.

Even before the terrorist attacks of September 2001, concerns had been rising among security experts about the vulnerabilities to attack of computer systems and associated infrastructure. Yet, despite increasing attention from federal and state governments and international organisations, the defence against attacks on these systems has appeared to be generally fragmented and varying widely in effectiveness. Concerns have grown that what is needed is a national cybersecurity framework -- a co-ordinated, coherent set of public- and private-sector efforts required to ensure an acceptable level of cybersecurity for the nation. As commonly used, cybersecurity refers to three things: measures to protect information technology; the information it contains, processes, and transmits, and associated physical and virtual elements (which together comprise cyberspace); the degree of protection resulting from application of those measures; and the associated field of professional endeavour. Virtually any element of cyberspace can be at risk, and the degree of interconnection of those elements can make it difficult to determine the extent of the cybersecurity framework that is needed. Identifying the major weaknesses in U.S. cybersecurity is an area of some controversy. However, some components appear to be sources of potentially significant risk because either major vulnerabilities have been identified or substantial impacts could result from a successful attack -- in particular, components that play critical roles in elements of critical infrastructure, widely used commercial software, organisational governance, and the level of public knowledge and perception about cybersecurity. There are several options for broadly addressing weaknesses in cybersecurity. They include adopting standards and certification, promulgating best practices and guidelines, using benchmarks and checklists, use of auditing, improving training and education, building security into enterprise architecture, using risk management, and using metrics. These different approaches all have different strengths and weaknesses with respect to how they might contribute to the development of a national framework for cybersecurity. None of them are likely to be widely adopted in the absence of sufficient economic incentives for cybersecurity.

The International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) is an annualinternationalconference that bringstogether researchers, engineers, developers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share expe- ence and exchange and cross-fertilize ideas on all areas of computational - telligence and information security. The conference serves as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art research and the development, and implem- tationsof systems, technologiesandapplicationsinthese two broad, interrelated ?elds. This year CIS 2005 was co-organized by the IEEE (Hong Kong) Com- tational Intelligence Chapter and Xidian University, and co-sponsored by Hong Kong Baptist University, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Laboratory of Computer Networks and Information Security of the Ministry of EducationofChina, andGuangdongUniversityofTechnology. CIS2005received in total 1802 submissions from 41 countries and regions all over the world. All of them were strictly peer reviewed by the Program Committee and experts in the ?eld. Finally, 337 high-quality papers were accepted yielding an acc- tance rate of 18. 7%. Among them, 84 papers are the extended papers and 253 are the regular papers. The conference was greatly enriched by a wide range of topics covering all areas of computational intelligence and information security. Furthermore, tutorials and workshops were held for discussions of the proposed ideas. Such practice is extremely important for the e?ective development of the two ?elds and computer science in general. Wewouldliketothanktheorganizers: theIEEE(HongKong)Computational Intelligence Chapter and Xidian University for their great contributions and - forts in this big e

There are wide-ranging implications in information security beyond national defense. Securing our information has implications for virtually all aspects of our lives, including protecting the privacy of our ?nancial transactions and medical records, facilitating all operations of government, maintaining the integrity of national borders, securing important facilities, ensuring the safety of our food and commercial products, protecting the safety of our aviation system-even safeguarding the integrity of our very identity against theft. Information security is a vital element in all of these activities, particularly as information collection and distribution become ever more connected through electronic information delivery systems and commerce. This book encompasses results of research investigation and technologies that can be used to secure, protect, verify, and authenticate objects and inf- mation from theft, counterfeiting, and manipulation by unauthorized persons and agencies. The book has drawn on the diverse expertise in optical sciences and engineering, digital image processing, imaging systems, information p- cessing, mathematical algorithms, quantum optics, computer-based infor- tion systems, sensors, detectors, and biometrics to report novel technologies that can be applied to information-security issues. The book is unique because it has diverse contributions from the ?eld of optics, which is a new emerging technology for security, and digital techniques that are very accessible and can be interfaced with optics to produce highly e?ective security systems.

Information Processing and Security Systems is a collection of forty papers that were originally presented at an international multi-conference on Advanced Computer Systems (ACS) and Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications (CISIM) held in Elk, Poland. This volume describes the latest developments in advanced computer systems and their applications within artificial intelligence, biometrics and information technology security. The volume also includes contributions on computational methods, algorithms and applications, computational science, education and industrial management applications.

The 7th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology was organized by the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology (KIISC) and was sponsored by the Ministry of Information and Communi- tion of Korea. The conference received 194 submissions, and the Program Committee - lected 34 of these for presentation. The conference program included two invited lectures.MikeReiterspokeon"Securityby, andfor, ConvergedMobileDevices." And Frank Stajano spoke on "Security for Ubiquitous Computing." We would like to ?rst thank the many researchers from all over the world who subm- ted their work to this conference. An electronic submission process was ava- able. The submission review process had two phases. In the ?rst phase, Program Committeememberscompiledreports(assistedattheirdiscretionbysubreferees of their choice, but without interaction with other Program Committee m- bers) and entered them, via a Web interface, into the Web Review software. We would like to thank the developers, Bart Preneel, Wim Moreau, and Joris Claessens. Without the Web Review system, the whole review process would not have been possible. In the second phase, Program Committee members used the software to browse each other's reports, and discuss and update their own reports.WeareextremelygratefultotheProgramCommittee membersfortheir enormous investment of time, e?ort, and adrenaline in the di?cult and delicate process of review and selection.

The ?rst workshop in this series was held at the International Computer S- ence Institute in Berkeley and was published as LNCS 2009 under the name "Workshop on Design Issues in Anonymity and Unobservability." Subsequent Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) workshops met in San Francisco in 2002 (LNCS2482)andDresdenin2003(LNCS2760).Thisvolume, LNCS3424, holds the proceedings from PET 2004 in Toronto. Our 2005 meeting is scheduled for Dubrovnik, and we hope to keep ?nding new and interesting places to visit on both sides of the Atlantic - or beyond. An event like PET 2004 would be impossible without the work and dedi- tion of many people. First and foremost we thank the authors, who wrote and submitted 68 full papers or panel proposals, 21 of which appear herein. The Program Committee produced 163 reviews in total. Along the way, they were assisted in reviewing by Steven Bishop, Rainer Bohme, Sebastian Clauss, Claudia D ?az, Richard E. Newman, Ulrich Flegel, Elke Franz, Stefan Kopsell, Thomas Kriegelstein, Markus Kuhn, Stephen Lewis, Luc Longpre, Steven M- doch, Shishir Nagaraja, Thomas Nowey, Peter Palfrader, Lexi Pimenidis, Klaus Ploessl, Sivaramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Marc Rennhard, Leo Reyzin, Pankaj Rohatgi, Naouel Ben Salem, Sandra Steinbrecher, Mike Szydlo, Shabsi Wal?sh, Jie Wang, Brandon Wiley, and Shouhuai Xu."

Even in the age of ubiquitous computing, the importance of the Internet will not change and we still need to solve conventional security issues. In addition, we need to deal with new issues such as security in the P2P environment, privacy issues in the use of smart cards, and RFID systems. Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing addresses these issues and more by exploring a wide scope of topics. The volume presents a selection of papers from the proceedings of the 20th IFIP International Information Security Conference held from May 30 to June 1, 2005 in Chiba, Japan. Topics covered include cryptography applications, authentication, privacy and anonymity, DRM and content security, computer forensics, Internet and web security, security in sensor networks, intrusion detection, commercial and industrial security, authorization and access control, information warfare and critical protection infrastructure. These papers represent the most current research in information security, including research funded in part by DARPA and the National Science Foundation.

Web and Information Security consists of a collection of papers written by leading experts in the field that describe state-of-the-art topics pertaining to Web and information systems security. In particular, security for the semantic Web, privacy, security policy management and emerging topics such as secure semantic grids and secure multimedia systems are also discussed. As well as covering basic concepts of Web and information system security, this book provides new insights into the semantic Web field and its related security challenges. ""Web and Information Security"" is valuable as a reference book for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in information security which have special focuses on Web security. It is also useful for technologists, researchers, managers and developers who want to know more about emerging security technologies.

Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services presents the proceedings of CSES 2004 - the 2nd International Workshop on Certification and Security in Inter-Organizational E-Services held within IFIP WCC in August 2004 in Toulouse, France. Certification and security share a common technological basis in the reliable and efficient monitoring of executed and running processes; they likewise depend on the same fundamental organizational and economic principles. As the range of services managed and accessed through communication networks grows throughout society, and given the legal value that is often attached to data treated or exchanged, it is critical to be able to certify the network transactions and ensure that the integrity of the involved computer-based systems is maintained.

This collection of papers documents several important developments, and offers real-life application experiences, research results and methodological proposals of direct interest to systems experts and users in governmental, industrial and academic communities.

Thesearetheproceedingsofthe7thWorkshoponCryptographic Hardwareand EmbeddedSystems(CHES2005)heldinEdinburgh, ScotlandfromAugust29to September1,2005.TheCHESworkshophasbeensponsoredbytheInternational Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) for the last two years. We received a total of 108 paper submissions for CHES 2005. The doub- blindreviewprocessinvolveda27-memberprogramcommittee anda largen- ber of external sub-referees. The review process concluded with a two week d- cussion process which resulted in 32 papers being selected for presentation. We are grateful to the program committee members and the external sub-referees for carrying out such an enormous task. Unfortunately, there were many strong papers that could not be included in the program due to a lack of space. We would like to thank all our colleagues who submitted papers to CHES 2005. In addition to regular presentations, there were three excellent invited talks given by Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge) on "What Identity Systems Can and Cannot Do," by Thomas Wille (Philips Semiconductors Inc) on "- curity of Identi?cation Products: How to Manage," and by Jim Ward (Trusted Computing Groupand IBM)on"TrustedComputing inEmbedded Systems."It also included a rump session, chaired by Christof Paar, featuring informal talks on recent results.

Computer Security in the 21st Century shares some of the emerging important research trends reflected in recent advances in computer security, including: security protocol design, secure peer-to-peer and ad hoc networks, multimedia security, and intrusion detection, defense and measurement.

Highlights include presentations of:

- Fundamental new security

- Cryptographic protocols and design,

- A new way of measuring network vulnerability: attack surfaces,

- Network vulnerability and building impenetrable systems,

- Multimedia content protection including a new standard for photographic images, JPEG2000.

Researchers and computer security developers will find in this book interesting and useful insights into building computer systems that protect against computer worms, computer viruses, and other related concerns.

"A must-read for anyone in security. One of the best security books available." . --Tony Bradley, CISSP, About.com.

"Authoritative.Even readers of earlier editions will find critical new insight on the more modern attacks." --From the Foreword by Gene Hodges, President of McAfee.

"A cross between a spy novel and a tech manual." --Mark A. Kellner, "Washington Times,"

"The seminal book on white-hat hacking and countermeasures.... Should be required reading for anyone with a server or a network to secure." Bill Machrone, "PC Magazine,"

"With every edition this book keeps getting better and better. I can recommend it to anyone interested in computer security, as it will certainly give you a real-world course on the subject." Mirko Zorz, Net-security.org.

The fifth edition of this world-renowned security reference offers completely up-to-date coverage of today's most devastating hacks and how to prevent them. Using the proven "Hacking Exposed" methodology, the book shows you, step by step, how to locate and patch system vulnerabilities and explains what you need to know to stay vigilant in today's 24x7 digital world. .

. New and Updated Material: . New chapter on hacking code, with contributions by Michael Howard, covering the ways flaws get introduced into software and how best to prevent them. New Windows hacks including RPCSS (Blaster), LSASS (Sasser), and PCT (Download.ject) buffer overflow exploits. Updated denial of service chapter with descriptions of large scale zombie attacks and practical countermeasures. Coverage of new web hacking tools and techniques including HTTP response splitting and automated vulnerability scanners. New content on remote connectivityincluding VoIP hacking. New coverage of web and e-mail client hacking, including the latest Internet Explorer exploits, phishing, spyware, rootkits, and bots. New hacks and countermeasures using Google as a reconnaissance tool. An updated footprinting chapter that deals with changes regarding finding information from Internet databases. Brand new case studies covering relevant and timely security attacks including Google, wireless, UNIX/Linux, and Mac OS X hacks.

Take network security to the next level!This book has never before published advanced security techniques and step-by-step instructions showing how to defend against devastating vulnerabilities to systems and network infrastructure.Just about every day the media is reporting another hard-core hack against some organisation. It was reported mid-March that hackers had taken over one of Lexis Nexis' databases gaining access to the personal files of as many as 32,000 people. Extreme Exploits provides advanced methodologies and solutions needed to defend against sophisticated exploits by showing them how to use the latest advanced security tools. The book teaches you how little-known vulnerabilities have been successfully exploited in the real world and have wreaked havoc on large-scale networks.