Firewalls and Internet Security Repelling the Wily Hacker

Name: Firewalls and Internet Security Repelling the Wily Hacker
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ISBN: 9780201633573

ISBN-10: 0201633574

ISBN-13: 9780201633573

Edition: 1st 1994

Authors: William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin

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Written by two AT&T Bell Labs researchers who helped break the infamous "Berferd" hacker case, this book gives you invaluable advice and practical tools for protecting your organization's computers from the very real threat of a hacker attack through the Internet. The authors show you step-by-step how to set up a firewall gateway-a dedicated computer equipped with safeguards that acts as a single, more easily defended, Internet connection.

Book details

List price: $36.95
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Publication date: 4/30/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.25" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



Getting Started



Introduction


Why Security?


Picking a Security Policy


Strategies for a Secure Network


The Ethics of Computer Security


Warning



An Overview of TCP/IP


The Different Layers


Routers and Routing Protocols


The Domain Name System


Standard Services


RPC


Based Protocols


File Transfer Protocols


The r Commands


Information Services


The X11 System


Patterns of Trust



Building Your Own Firewall



Firewall Gateways


Firewall Philosophy


Situating Firewalls


Packet-Filtering Gateways


Application-Level Gateways


Circuit-Level Gateways


Supporting Inbound Services


Tunnels Good and Bad


Joint Ventures


What Firewalls Can't Do



How to Build an Application-Level Gateway


Policy


Hardware Configuration Options


Initial Installation


Gateway Tools


Installing Services


Protecting the Protectors


Gateway Administration


Safety Analysis (Why Our Setup Is Secure and Fail-Safe)


Performance


The TIS Firewall Toolkit


Evaluating Firewalls


Living Without a Firewall



Authentication


User Authentication


Host-to-Host Authentication



Gateway Tools


Proxylib


Syslog


Watching the Network: Tcpdump and Friends


Adding Logging to Standard Daemons



Traps, Lures, and Honey Pots


What to Log


Dummy Accounts


Tracing the Connection



The Hacker's Workbench


Introduction


Discovery


Probing Hosts


Connection Tools


Routing Games


Network Monitors


Metastasis


Tiger Teams


Further Reading



A Book Back



Classes of Attacks


Stealing Passwords


Social Engineering


Bugs and Backdoors


Authentication Failures


Protocol Failures


Information Leakage


Denial-of-Service



An Evening with Berferd


Introduction


Unfriendly Acts


An Evening with Berferd


The Day After


The Jail


Tracing Berferd


Berferd Comes Home



Where the Wild Things Are: A Look at the Logs


A Year of Hacking


Proxy Use


Attack Sources


Noise on the Line



Odds And Ends



Legal Considerations


Computer Crime Statutes


Log Files as Evidence


Is Monitoring Legal?


Tort Liability Considerations



Secure Communications over Insecure Networks


An Introduction to Cryptography


The Kerberos Authentication System


Link-Level Encryption


Network- and Transport-Level Encryption


Application-Level Encryption



Where Do We Go from Here?



Useful Free Stuff


Building Firewalls


Network Management and Monitoring Tools


Auditing Packages


Cryptographic Software


Information Sources



TCP and UDP Ports


Fixed Ports


MBone Usage



Recommendations to Vendors


Everyone


Hosts


Routers


Protocols


Firewalls


Bibliography


List of Bombs


Index