Hacking Exposed: Malware and Rootkits Secrets and Solutions at Dominant Systems Book Store

"A harrowing guide to where the bad guys hide, and how you can find them." --Dan Kaminsky, Director of Penetration Testing, IOActive

"An amazing resource. It is timely, focused, and what we need to better understand and defend against one of the greatest cyber threats we face." --From the Foreword by Lance Spitzner, President of the Honeynet Project

Don't let another machine become a zombie in the malware army

Defend 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

Customer Reviews & Comments
While the first reviewer didn't like the emphasis on Rootkits as opposed to also including more info on Malware, there are already plenty of books concerning Malware in my opinion. The delivery mechanism (Rootkits) seems to be less exposed and known about in the general public. This book deals more with actually locating, and removing Rootkits (within reason) where as many of the recently published Rootkit guides deal more with implementation and structuring of Rootkits. For the above average computer user as well as IT professional, I would highly recommend this book. It's not written in laymans terms but even someone who is an avid computer user could pick up many useful tips from this read. If you have any dreams of getting into the computer security field or if you do computer security on the side, this is an absolute must have for your library. The newest generation of crackers and black hats are quickly moving to the Rootkit delivery system because of it's totally stealth characteristics and fast deployment system rendering todays AV and Anti-Malware programs virtually useless to protect the end user. Personally I'd recommend everyone get or read this book since Rootkits ARE the wave of the future without a doubt.

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