Attacking Network Protocols: A Hacker's Guide to Capture, Analysis, and Exploitation

This is an excellent book in good shape, just like advertised. I had to check my Amazon order to confirm the book is a used one. This book covers the most critical aspects of network security, including reverse engineering (compilers and assemblers) and great network analysis tools I did not know.

This was well worth reading. it gave a short refresher of the basics of networking and then got into the how to capture, analyze, and exploit them.

James Forshaw did a good on explaining the inner workings of network protocols, cipher methods used to provide security and integrity to the information, some methods to debug apps and a ton of methods to exploit them.

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Forshaw gives us a succinct and detailed explanation of white hat or black hat techniques to analyse and do more with network traffic. At the simplest level might be the descriptions of how to get ("capture") packets and then to send these at a later time against their destination. This is the classic replay scenario that has been with us since the dawn of the Internet. The text shows how to take the next obvious step, where instead of simply replaying the packets you first alter them in some benign (?) or nefarious (?) manner.Of necessity you need some knowledge of cryptosystems. But Forshaw spares you the hard math. Instead AES, block ciphers et al are quickly and accurately run through at the systems level. A deeper dive is via Bruce Schneier's Applied Cryptography, which you might want to also have as a backup to this book.Attach methods like SQL injection are covered. Any reader working with databases should read this section slowly and carefully. Still a very common reputed attack vector.

So much information in one place!Purchased the ebook first then had to get the paperback.

I LOVE THIS BOOK !! If your into computer security or networking this book has a lot of good info :)

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