Low Tech Hacking: Street Smarts for Security Professionals
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Low Tech Hacking teaches your students how to avoid and defend against some of the simplest and most common hacks. Criminals using hacking techniques can cost corporations, governments, and individuals millions of dollars each year. While the media focuses on the grand-scale attacks that have been planned for months and executed by teams and countries, there are thousands more that aren’t broadcast. This book focuses on the everyday hacks that, while simple in nature, actually add up to the most significant losses. It provides detailed descriptions of potential threats and vulnerabilities, many of which the majority of the information systems world may be unaware. It contains insider knowledge of what could be your most likely low-tech threat, with timely advice from some of the top security minds in the world.
Author Jack Wiles spent many years as an inside penetration testing team leader, proving that these threats and vulnerabilities exist and their countermeasures work. His contributing authors are among the best in the world in their respective areas of expertise. The book is organized into 8 chapters covering social engineering; locks and ways to low tech hack them; low tech wireless hacking; low tech targeting and surveillance; low tech hacking for the penetration tester; the law on low tech hacking; and information security awareness training as a countermeasure to employee risk.
This book will be a valuable resource for penetration testers, internal auditors, information systems auditors, CIOs, CISOs, risk managers, fraud investigators, system administrators, private investigators, ethical hackers, black hat hackers, corporate attorneys, and members of local, state, and federal law enforcement.
Contains insider knowledge of what could be your most likely Low Tech threatIncludes timely advice from some of the top security minds in the worldCovers many detailed countermeasures that you can employ to improve your security posture
Publisher : Syngress
Publication date : January 2, 2012
Edition : 1st
Language : English
Print length : 264 pages
ISBN-10 : 1597496650
ISBN-13 : 978-1597496650
Item Weight : 1.2 pounds
Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.6 x 9.25 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #2,056,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,104 in Computer Hacking #1,142 in Information Management (Books) #8,653 in Computer Science (Books)
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Quiet Scot –
A fine part of a reference library. Well done!
5 stars just to offset the foolish comments of a one star reviewer. Also, 5 stars because this book belongs the shelf of every person who is even remotely interested in security…period. As there are many books on the subject of rebuilding a motor, so there are many on security. That does not mean that any one book contains every answer, but I do submit that every book contains something of value and so it is with this book. This author and his co-authors know their turf very well indeed and the petty reviewers who try to detract from that show only their own shortcomings. Considering what “security” entails, these authors have done a very fine job indeed.
vodka guy –
Get your kids interested in tech
I am in software and try to do things to foster my kid’s productive interests. This is chock full of interesting things to try. Good book – and if left out on the coffee table, your kids will pick it up.
Ben Rothke –
Book has actionable things you can do to secure networks
ecurity guru Bruce Schneier has observed that for those organizations that have incorrectly deployed cryptography, it is akin to putting a big flagpole in front of your facility and hoping that it will stop any attackers from breaking in. Of course, attackers will simply go around the flagpole rather than running into it.In Low Tech Hacking: Street Smarts for Security Professionals, the authors, all information security veterans bring their collective experience to the printed word and show how low-tech hacks can be just as devastating as a large-scale directed attack.The authors show how these simple attacks can be obviated by simple technical solutions, and provide numerous examples.One of the paradigms the book uses is around lock picking. The author notes that one thing about locks is that after all is said and done, locks don’t change that much. So too with information security. Even though there is significant amounts of new technologies abound to catch new sophisticated attacks. The old school attack vectors of social engineering, poor password practices and more, are often the method in which attacks penetrate networks.The book provides many tips which the reader can use to protect themselves against many of the most devastatingly simple attacks. For example, in chapter 2 on physical security, the book details a mini physical security risk assessment you can do. By focusing on the low-hanging fruit, many of the simply steps the authors suggest can delay the attackers long enough that they decide to try another victim.The book also provides ample amounts of advice to security staffers that they can use to secure their network. Much of chapter 4 is around low-tech wireless hacking. Many networks add wireless access for ease of use. But that user-friendliness also makes it easy for the attackers to connect to the network and launch their attack.Overall, Low Tech Hacking: Street Smarts for Security Professional is a value reference for security professionals to use to ensure they are securing their networks adequately, to fend off the average attacker.The authors have written a book that is light on theory, but heavy on actionable things the reader can quickly do to secure their network. And that is a very good thing.
Customer –
Handy and entertaining
The book introduced me to a ton of tools and methods for performing physical penetration-tests. It will be an invaluable resource when planning this portion of a penetration-testing methodology or program. It was very much updated since the last Syngress Press title on No Tech Hacking. There’s even some tech wins and tech challenges in the book!I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in social engineering or physical penetration-testing. The book makes excellent references to the other material and content available on the Internet and in print form, such as the social-engineer.org portal, and the recent book from Trace Security.One thing the book doesn’t mention is that keeping a steady heartbeat/pulse and keeping the sweat down can require rigorous training for some people! They do make it sound almost too easy!
Amazon Customer –
Low Tech Hacking added to my Security must reads
From an Information Security testing point of view this book has given me better insight into why I love social engineering and penetration testing so much. Jack and crew not only share how its done but provide accounts and what countermeasures can be effective is mitigating the threats described. I will take the tricks and techniques I learned apply it to my own tests.Greg
Client Amazon –
Unequal non-technical book
I really like syngress. Most of the books I read were original content, and very technical. Sadly, despite having a great promising intro, the book did not deliver. Many examples from social engineering were literal copy-paste. (I believe that it is the story of the author, so it is not a problem, but i would have expected original content). The section about lockpicking is only a little introduction, with skimming over what could be done, but without technical explanation. There is a big part about risk management “filling” this section, but gives little to no value. Of course, the book gives reference to a great syngress book, Practical Lockpicking. Then, the book writes a little about social engineering. Once again content is very high level, contains little to no new content. It does give a reference to another practice book, Human Compromise (syngress edition). Wifi had little more tech, but did not help to do any of the attacks described. It merely described what could be done with some unamed wifi equipment. I would not recommend this book to anyone. Technical people will find this book devoid of content.
Chris Henke –
Great refresher and reference book
This is a good book to use for prepping for a user-education seminar or simply brushing up on your basic security information. I like having all this info right at hand and in an easy to read and access format.