Davis Michael, Bodmer Sean, Lemasters Aaron. Hacking Exposed: Malware And Rootkits

2010 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. 378 p.
ISBN: 978-0-07-159119-5Defend against the ongoing wave of malware and rootkit assaults the failsafe Hacking Exposed way. Real-world case studies and examples reveal how today’s hackers use readily available tools to infiltrate and hijack systems. Step-by-step countermeasures provide proven prevention techniques. Find out how to detect and eliminate malicious embedded code, block pop-ups and websites, prevent keylogging, and terminate rootkits. The latest intrusion detection, firewall, honeynet, antivirus, anti-rootkit, and anti-spyware technologies are covered in detail.
- Understand how malware infects, survives, and propagates across an enterprise
- Learn how hackers use archivers, encryptors, and packers to obfuscate code
- Implement effective intrusion detection and prevention procedures
- Defend against keylogging, redirect, click fraud, and identity theft threats
- Detect, kill, and remove virtual, user-mode, and kernel-mode rootkits
- Prevent malicious website, phishing, client-side, and embedded-code exploits
- Protect hosts using the latest antivirus, pop-up blocker, and firewall software
- Identify and terminate malicious processes using HIPS and NIPS