Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace

ISBN: 0132564718

Author: Davidoff, Sherri

Condition: New

This is a must-have work for anybody in information security, digital forensics, or involved with incident handling. As we move away from traditional disk-based analysis into the interconnectivity of the cloud, Sherri and Jonathan have created a framework and roadmap that will act as a seminal work in this developing field.- Dr. Craig S. Wright (GSE), Asia Pacific Director at Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research.Its like a symphony meeting an encyclopedia meeting a spy novel.-Michael Ford, Corero Network SecurityOn the Internet, every action leaves a mark-in routers, firewalls, web proxies, and within network traffic itself. When a hacker breaks into a bank, or an insider smuggles secrets to a competitor, evidence of the crime is always left behind.Learn to recognize hackers tracks and uncover network-based evidence in Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace.Carve suspicious email attachments from packet captures. Use flow records to track an intruder as he pivots through the network. Analyze a real-world wireless encryption-cracking attack (and then crack the key yourself). Reconstruct a suspects web surfing history-and cached web pages, too-from a web proxy. Uncover DNS-tunneled traffic. Dissect the Operation Aurora exploit, caught on the wire.Throughout the text, step-by-step case studies guide you through the analysis of network-based evidence. You can download the evidence files from the authors web site (lmgsecurity.com), and follow along to gain hands-on experience.Hackers leave footprints all across the Internet. Can you find their tracks and solve the case? Pick up Network Forensicsand find out.