Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
What would happen if the attackers were highly motivated and highly skilled? These authors have taken the time and effort to create ten stories exploring just what it would take to own the network.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box
Contents
Chapter 1: Hide and Sneak Ido Dubrawsky
If you want to hack into someone else s network, the week between Christmas and New Year s Day is the best time. I love that time of year. No one is around, and most places are running on a skeleton crew at best. If you re good, and you do it right, you won t be noticed even by the automated systems. And that was a perfect time of year to hit these guys with their nice e-commerce site plenty of credit card numbers, I figured.
The people who ran this site had ticked me off. I bought some computer hardware from them, and they took forever to ship it to me. On top of that, when the stuff finally arrived, it was damaged. I called their support line and asked for a return or an exchange, but they said that they wouldn t take the card back because it was a closeout. Their site didn t say that the card was a closeout! I told the support drones that, but they wouldn t listen. They said, policy is policy, and didn t you read the fine print? Well, if they re going to take that position . Look, they were okay guys on the whole. They just needed a bit of a lesson. That s all.
Chapter 2: The Worm Turns Ryan Russell and Tim Mullen
After a few hours, I ve got a tool that seems to work. Geeze, 4:30 A.M. I mail it to the list for people to check out and try.
Heh,...
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