Hacking For Dummies Introduction Welcome to Hacking For Dummies. This book outlines computer hacker tricks and techniques — in plain English — to assess the security of your own information systems, find security vulnerabilities, and fix the vulnerabilities before malicious and criminal hackers have an opportunity to take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional, aboveboard, and legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking throughout the book. Computer and network security is a complex subject and an evermoving target. You must stay on top of it to ensure your information is protected from the bad guys. You can implement all the security technologies and other best practices possible, and your information systems may be secure — as far as you know. However, until you understand how hackers think and apply that knowledge to assess your systems from a hacker’s-eye view, you can’t get a true sense of how secure your information really is. Ethical hacking — sometimes referred to as penetration testing or white-hat hacking — is a necessary requirement to ensure that information systems are truly secure on an ongoing basis. This book provides you with the knowledge required to successfully implement an ethical hacking program, along with countermeasures that you can implement to keep malicious hackers out of your business. Who Should Read This Book? If you want to hack other people’s computer systems maliciously, this book is not for you. Disclaimer: If you choose to use the information in this book to hack or break into computer systems maliciously in an unauthorized fashion, you’re on your own. Neither I, as the author, nor anyone else associated with this book shall be liable or responsible for any unethical or criminal choices that you may make and execute using the methodologies and tools that I describe. This book is intended solely for the IT professional to test information security in an authorized fashion.

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