Are you worried about external hackers and rogue insiders breaking into your systems? Whether it’s social engineering, network infrastructure attacks, or application hacking, security breaches in your systems can devastate your business or personal life. In order to counter these cyber bad guys, you must become a hacker yourself—an ethical hacker. 
Hacking for Dummies shows you just how vulnerable your systems are to attackers. It shows you how to find your weak spots and perform penetration and other security tests. With the information found in this handy, straightforward book, you will be able to develop a plan to keep your information safe and sound. You’ll discover how to: <ul>
<li>Work ethically, respect privacy, and save your system from crashing</li> <li>Develop a hacking plan</li> <li>Treat social engineers and preserve their honesty</li> <li>Counter war dialing and scan infrastructures</li> <li>Understand the vulnerabilities of Windows, Linux, and Novell NetWare</li> <li>Prevent breaches in messaging systems, web applications, and databases</li> <li>Report your results and managing security changes</li> <li>Avoid deadly mistakes</li> <li>Get management involved with defending your systems</li> </ul>
As we enter into the digital era, protecting your systems and your company has never been more important. Don’t let skepticism delay your decisions and put your security at risk. With Hacking For Dummies, you can strengthen your defenses and prevent attacks from every angle!

Hacking For Dummies

Computers & Technology

Beaver, Kevin

Networking & Cloud Computing

For Dummies

A new edition of the bestselling guide-now updated to cover the latest hacks and how to prevent them! It's bad enough when a hack occurs-stealing identities, bank accounts, and personal information. But when the hack could have been prevented by taking basic security measures-like the ones described in this book-somehow that makes a bad situation even worse. This beginner guide to hacking examines some of the best security measures that exist and has been updated to cover the latest hacks for Windows 7 and the newest version of Linux. Offering increased coverage of Web application hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and mobile computing hacks, this guide addresses a wide range of vulnerabilities and how to identify and prevent them. Plus, you'll examine why ethical hacking is oftentimes the only way to find security flaws, which can then prevent any future malicious attacks. <ul>
<li>Explores the malicious hackers's mindset so that you can counteract or avoid attacks completely</li> <li>Covers developing strategies for reporting vulnerabilities, managing security changes, and putting anti-hacking policies and procedures in place</li> <li>Completely updated to examine the latest hacks to Windows 7 and the newest version of Linux</li> <li>Explains ethical hacking and why it is essential</li> </ul>
Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition shows you how to put all the necessary security measures in place so that you avoid becoming a victim of malicious hacking.

Hacking for Dummies

Computer Science

While you’re reading this, a hacker could be prying and spying his way into your company’s IT systems, sabotaging your operations, stealing confidential information, shutting down your Web site, or wreaking havoc in other diabolical ways. Hackers For Dummies helps you hack into a hacker’s mindset and take security precautions to help you avoid a hack attack. It outlines computer hacker tricks and techniques you can use to assess the security of your own information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix them before malicious and criminal hackers can exploit them. It covers: 
<ul>
<li>Hacking methodology and researching public information to see what a hacker can quickly learn about your operations</li> <li>Social engineering (how hackers manipulate employees to gain information and access), physical security, and password vulnerabilities</li> <li>Network infrastructure, including port scanners, SNMP scanning, banner grabbing, scanning, and wireless LAN vulnerabilities</li> <li>Operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Novell NetWare</li> <li>Application hacking, including malware (Trojan horses, viruses, worms, rootkits, logic bombs, and more), e-mail and instant messaging, and Web applications</li> <li>Tests, tools (commercial, shareware, and freeware), and techniques that offer the most bang for your ethical hacking buck</li> </ul>
With this guide you can develop and implement a comprehensive security assessment plan, get essential support from management, test your system for vulnerabilities, take countermeasures, and protect your network infrastructure. You discover how to beat hackers at their own game, with: <ul>
<li>A hacking toolkit, including War dialing software, password cracking software, network scanning software, network vulnerability assessment software, a network analyzer, a Web application assessment tool, and more</li> <li>All kinds of countermeasures and ways to plug security holes</li> <li>A list of more than 100 security sites, tools, and resources</li> </ul>
Ethical hacking helps you fight hacking with hacking, pinpoint security flaws within your systems, and implement countermeasures. Complete with tons of screen shots, step-by-step instructions for some countermeasures, and actual case studies from IT security professionals, this is an invaluable guide, whether you’re an Internet security professional, part of a penetration-testing team, or in charge of IT security for a large or small business.

Internet & Social Media

Become a cyber-hero - know the common wireless weaknesses 
"Reading a book like this one is a worthy endeavor toward becoming an experienced wireless security professional." --Devin Akin - CTO, The Certified Wireless Network Professional (CWNP) Program Wireless networks are so convenient - not only for you, but also for those nefarious types who'd like to invade them. The only way to know if your system can be penetrated is to simulate an attack. This book shows you how, along with how to strengthen any weak spots you find in your network's armor. Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Perform ethical hacks without compromising a system</li> <li>Combat denial of service and WEP attacks</li> <li>Understand how invaders think</li> <li>Recognize the effects of different hacks</li> <li>Protect against war drivers and rogue devices</li> </ul>

Hacking Wireless Networks For Dummies

Certification

The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance

Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor, The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance, Second Edition is a one-stop, up-to-date resource on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy and security, including details on the HITECH Act, the 2013 Omnibus Rule, and the pending rules. Updated and revised with several new sections, this edition defines what HIPAA is, what it requires, and what you need to do to achieve compliance.\nThe book provides an easy-to-understand overview of HIPAA privacy and security rules and compliance tasks. Supplying authoritative insights into real-world HIPAA privacy and security issues, it summarizes the analysis, training, and technology needed to properly plan and implement privacy and security policies, training, and an overall program to manage information risks. Instead of focusing on technical jargon, the book spells out what your organization must do to achieve and maintain compliance requirements on an ongoing basis.

Business & Money

Herold, Rebecca

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Updated for Windows 8 and the latest version of Linux The best way to stay safe online is to stop hackers before they attack - first, by understanding their thinking and second, by ethically hacking your own site to measure the effectiveness of your security. This practical, top-selling guide will help you do both. Fully updated for Windows 8 and the latest version of Linux, Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition explores the malicious hacker's mindset and helps you develop an ethical hacking plan (also known as penetration testing) using the newest tools and techniques. More timely than ever, this must-have book covers the very latest threats, including web app hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and hacking of mobile devices. <ul>
<li>Guides you through the techniques and tools you need to stop hackers before they hack you</li> <li>Completely updated to examine the latest hacks to Windows 8 and the newest version of Linux</li> <li>Explores the malicious hackers's mindset so that you can counteract or avoid attacks completely</li> <li>Suggests ways to report vulnerabilities to upper management, manage security changes, and put anti-hacking policies and procedures in place</li> </ul>
If you're responsible for security or penetration testing in your organization, or want to beef up your current system through ethical hacking, make sure you get Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition.

Updated for Windows 8 and the latest version of Linux The best way to stay safe online is to stop hackers before they attack - first, by understanding their thinking and second, by ethically hacking your own site to measure the effectiveness of your security. This practical, top-selling guide will help you do both. Fully updated for Windows 8 and the latest version of Linux, Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition explores the malicious hacker's mindset and helps you develop an ethical hacking plan (also known as penetration testing) using the newest tools and techniques. More timely than ever, this must-have book covers the very latest threats, including web app hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and hacking of mobile devices.  Guides you through the techniques and tools you need to stop hackers before they hack you Completely updated to examine the latest hacks to Windows 8 and the newest version of Linux Explores the malicious hackers's mindset so that you can counteract or avoid attacks completely Suggests ways to report vulnerabilities to upper management, manage security changes, and put anti-hacking policies and procedures in place  If you're responsible for security or penetration testing in your organization, or want to beef up your current system through ethical hacking, make sure you get Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition.

Learn to hack your own system to protect against malicious attacks from outsideIs hacking something left up to the bad guys? Certainly not! Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your system to better protect your network against malicious attacks. This revised text helps you recognize any vulnerabilities that are lurking in your system, allowing you to fix them before someone else finds them. Penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, security best practices, and other aspects of ethical hacking are covered in this book, including Windows 10 hacks, Linux hacks, web application hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and mobile computing hacks. Additionally, you have access to free testing tools and an appendix detailing valuable tools and resources.
Ethical hacking entails thinking like the bad guys to identify any vulnerabilities that they might find in your system—and fixing them before they do. Also called penetration testing, ethical hacking is essential to keeping your system, and all of its data, secure. Understanding how to perform effective ethical hacking can improve the safety of your network.
<ul>
<li>Defend your system—and all of the data it holds—against the latest Windows 10 and Linux hacks</li>
<li>Develop an effective ethical hacking plan that keeps your system safe</li>
<li>Protect your web applications, databases, laptops, and smartphones by going beyond simple hacking strategies</li>
<li>Leverage the latest testing tools and techniques when using ethical hacking to keep your system secure</li>
</ul>
Hacking For Dummies, 5th Edition is a fully updated resource that guides you in hacking your own system to protect it—and it will become your go-to reference when ethical hacking is on your to-do list.

Hacking for Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/tech))

This is the hardcover format of Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition Updated for Windows 8 and the latest version of Linux The best way to stay safe online is to stop hackers before they attack - first, by understanding their thinking and second, by ethically hacking your own site to measure the effectiveness of your security. This practical, top-selling guide will help you do both. Fully updated for Windows 8 and the latest version of Linux, Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition explores the malicious hacker's mindset and helps you develop an ethical hacking plan (also known as penetration testing) using the newest tools and techniques. More timely than ever, this must-have book covers the very latest threats, including web app hacks, database hacks, VoIP hacks, and hacking of mobile devices. <ul> <li>Guides you through the techniques and tools you need to stop hackers before they hack you</li> <li>Completely updated to examine the latest hacks to Windows 8 and the newest version of Linux</li> <li>Explores the malicious hackers's mindset so that you can counteract or avoid attacks completely</li> <li>Suggests ways to report vulnerabilities to upper management, manage security changes, and put anti-hacking policies and procedures in place</li> </ul> If you're responsible for security or penetration testing in your organization, or want to beef up your current system through ethical hacking, make sure you get&nbsp; Hacking For Dummies, 4th Edition.

Stop hackers before they hack you! In order to outsmart a would-be hacker, you need to get into the hacker’s mindset. And with this book, thinking like a bad guy has never been easier. In Hacking For Dummies, expert author Kevin Beaver shares his knowledge on penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, security best practices, and every aspect of ethical hacking that is essential in order to stop a hacker in their tracks. Whether you’re worried about your laptop, smartphone, or desktop computer being compromised, this no-nonsense book helps you learn how to recognize the vulnerabilities in your systems so you can safeguard them more diligently―with confidence and ease. <ul>
<li>Get up to speed on Windows 10 hacks </li> <li>Learn about the latest mobile computing hacks</li> <li>Get free testing tools </li> <li>Find out about new system updates and improvements</li> </ul>
There’s no such thing as being too safe―and this resourceful guide helps ensure you’re protected.

Hacking For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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