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The database hacker's handbook
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- Book Synopsis
- Databases are the nerve center of our economy. Every piece of your personal information is stored there-medical records, bank accounts, employment history, pensions, car registrations, even your children's grades and what groceries you buy. Database attacks are potentially crippling-and relentless. In this essential follow-up to The Shellcoder's Handbook, four of the world's top security experts teach you to break into and defend the seven most popular database servers. You'll learn how to identify vulnerabilities, how attacks are carried out, and how to stop the carnage. The bad guys already know all this. You need to know it too. * Identify and plug the new holes in Oracle and Microsoft(r) SQL Server * Learn the best defenses for IBM's DB2(r), PostgreSQL, Sybase ASE, and MySQL(r) servers * Discover how buffer overflow exploitation, privilege escalation through SQL, stored procedure or trigger abuse, and SQL injection enable hacker access * Recognize vulnerabilities peculiar to each database * Find out what the attackers already know Go to www.wiley.com/go/dbhackershandbook for code samples, security alerts , and programs available for download.
- About The Author
- David Litchfield specializes in searching for new threats to database systems and web applications and holds the unofficial world record for finding major security flaws. He has lectured to both British and U.S. government security agencies on database security and is a regular speaker at the Blackhat Security Briefings. He is a co-author of The Shellcoder's Handbook, SQL Server Security, and Special Ops. In his spare time he is the Managing Director of Next Generation Security Software Ltd. Chris Anley is a co-author of The Shellcoder's Handbook, a best-selling book about security vulnerability research. He has published whitepapers and security advisories on a number of database systems, including SQL Server, Sybase, MySQL, DB2, and Oracle. John Heasman is a principal security consultant at NGS Software. He is a prolific security researcher and has published many security advisories relating to high-profile products such as Microsoft Windows, Real Player, Apple Quick-Time, and PostgreSQL. Bill Grindlay is a senior security consultant and software engineer at NGS Software. He has worked on both the generalized vulnerability scanner Typhon III and the NGSSQuirreL family of database security scanners. He is a co-author of the database administrator's guide, SQL Server Security. Next Generation Security Software Ltd is a UK-based company that develops a suite of database server vulnerability assessment tools, the NGSSQuirreL family. Founded in 2001, NGS Software's consulting arm is the largest dedicated security team in Europe. All four authors of this book work for NGS Software.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780764578014
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (15 July 2005)
- Number of Pages
- 500
- Weight
- 861.84 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 231.1 x 182.9 x 30.5 mm
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