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NEW EDITION OF HACKING EXPOSED NOW AVAILABLE

The 10th Anniversary of "the Bible" for IT Security Professionals

The phrase "information security" has expanded significantly in scope over the last decade. New hacker tools, techniques, scripts, and automated hacking malware hit the world with ever increasing ferocity. In order to be a successful defender and practitioner of security, one must be able to think like a creative attacker to stand up to the daunting task of taking on a growing cybercriminal community.

In HACKING EXPOSED: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, 6th Edition (McGraw-Hill; February 2009; Softcover: $49.99) Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, and George Kurtz rejoin forces, sharing new experiences and wisdom gained during the ten years since they wrote the first edition. The book applies the authors' computer security methodologies, technical rigor, and "from-the-trenches" experience to make computer technology usage and deployments more secure for businesses and consumers.

This edition includes brand-new material, such as:
• New "Hacking Hardware" chapter, covering physical locks and access cards, RFID, laptop security technologies, USB U3, Bluetooth, firmware, and many others.
• New Windows hacks, including Terminal Services, Kerberos sniffing, man-in-the-middle attacks, Metasploit, device driver exploits, new password cracking tools, etc.
• New UNIX hacks, including THC Hydra, Solaris input validation attacks, dangling pointer attacks, DNS cache poisoning, UNIX Trojans, kernel rootkits, and more.
• Coverage of new wireless hacks.
• New network device hacks, including new Cisco vulnerabilities.
• Coverage of new VPN and VoIP hacks, including using Google to hack VPN configurations, hacking IPsec VPN servers, etc.
• New footprinting, scanning, and enumeration techniques that can go undetected.
• Brand-new case studies covering new and timely techniques that real-world hackers use to get into systems and stay there-anonymously.
• Fully updated chapters on hacking the internet user, web hacking, and securing code.
• Additional info at www.hackingexposed.com

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Stuart McClure, CISSP, CNE, CCSE, is Vice President of Operations and Strategy for the Risk & Compliance Business Unit at McAfee. In 2008, McClure was Executive Director of Security Services at Kaiser Permanente, where he oversaw 140 security professionals and was responsible for security compliance, oversight, consulting, architecture, and operations. McClure also was Senior Vice President of Global Threats, running all of AVERT, McAfee's virus, malware, and attack detection signature and heuristic response team. He has served as Senior Vice President of Risk Management Product Development at McAfee, Inc., and prior to his role at McAfee, McClure was founder, president, and chief technology officer of Foundstone, Inc. In 1999, he created and co-authored Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, the best-selling computer security book with more than 500,000 copies sold to date, and translated into more than 26 languages. He also co-authored Hacking Exposed Windows 2000 (McGraw-Hill Professional) and Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense (Addison-Wesley).

Joel Scambray, CISSP, is co-founder and CEO of Consciere, a provider of strategic security advisory services. He has assisted companies ranging from startups to members of the Fortune 50 in addressing information security challenges for more than a dozen years. He was a senior director at Microsoft Corporation, where he led Microsoft's online services security efforts for three years before joining the Windows platform and services division to focus on security technology architecture. Joel co-founded security software and services startup Foundstone, Inc., and helped lead it to acquisition by McAfee. He has also held positions as a Manager for Ernst & Young, Chief Strategy Officer for Leviathan, security columnist for Microsoft TechNet, Editor at Large for InfoWorld Magazine, and director of IT for a major commercial real estate firm. Scambray has helped create Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions in 1999. He is also lead author of the Hacking Exposed Windows and Hacking Exposed Web Applications series (both from McGraw-Hill Professional).

George Kurtz, CISSP, CISA, CPA, is currently Senior Vice President & General Manager of McAfee's Risk & Compliance Business Unit. He is the former CEO of Foundstone, and has served as a senior manager and the national leader of Ernst & Young's Security Profiling Services Group. Kurtz has more than 16 years of experience in the security space and has helped hundreds of large organizations and government agencies tackle the most demanding security problems. He has been quoted or featured in many major publications, media outlets, and television programs, including CNN, Fox News, ABC World News, Associated Press, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Time, ComputerWorld, eWeek, and others. Kurtz is one of the original authors of the first edition of Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions.

Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, 6th Edition by Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, and George Kurtz
McGraw-Hill; February 2009; Softcover: $49.99; 687 pages; ISBN-10: 0-07-1613749; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-1613743