Essential Skills for Hackers

Bots: How to Detect and Prevent Them is a concise overview of the malicious behavior and threats posed by Bots to Internet and network security. Bots are automated software programs used to browse the web or other network systems, scraping information from the sites visited and in some cases, conducting malicious attacks such as denial-of-service attacks. Though Bots have been around for a long time, the security threats from Bots is evolving daily, and this brief volume will present the most current threats, detection techniques, and defenses for these attacks.

Essential Skills for Hackers is about the skills you need to be in the elite hacker family.

The book will mainly about two things: TCP/IP 101, and Protocol Analysis.  The better the hacker, the more we will be able to master TCP/IP. Once the reader understands what TCP/IP is, what it looks like, the book will go into Protocol Analysis and how analyzing the protocol or, in a more general sense, looking at packets on the wire, we will be able to determine what exactly is taking place on a network. By doing this, readers can identify when something on the network doesn't match what it should and, more importantly, can create any type of sequence of events or packets that they want on the network and see how the defenses or the machines that we send them to react.

• Presents an foundation for the skills required to be an elite hacker.

Chapter 1: Network Protocols

Chapter 2: Packet Headers

Chapter 3: Analyzed Traffic

Henry Dalziel is a serial education entrepreneur, founder of Concise Ac Ltd, online cybersecurity blogger and e-book author. He writes for the Concise-Courses.com blog and has developed numerous cybersecurity continuing education courses and books. Concise Ac Ltd develops and distributes continuing education content [books and courses] for cybersecurity professionals seeking skill enhancement and career advancement. The company was recently accepted onto the UK Trade & Investment's (UKTI) Global Entrepreneur Programme (GEP).