Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks (eBook)

Dan York (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010 | 1. Auflage
224 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-59749-548-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Do you need to keep up with the latest hacks, attacks, and exploits effecting Unified Communications technology? Then you need Seven Deadliest Unified Communication Attacks. This book pinpoints the most dangerous hacks and exploits specific to Unified Communications, laying out the anatomy of these attacks including how to make your system more secure. You will discover the best ways to defend against these vicious hacks with step-by-step instruction and learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable.

Attacks featured in this book include:

1. UC Ecosystem Attacks
2. Insecure Endpoints
3. Eavesdropping and Modification
4. Control Channel Attacks: Fuzzing, DoS, SPIT and Toll Fraud
5. SIP Trunking and PSTN Interconnection
6. Identity, Spoofing and Vishing
7. Attacks Against Distributed Systems

• Knowledge is power, find out about the most dominant attacks currently waging war on computers and networks globally


• Discover the best ways to defend against these vicious attacks, step-by-step instruction shows you how


• Institute countermeasures, don't be caught defenseless again, learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable

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Seven Deadliest Unified Communications Attacks provides a comprehensive coverage of the seven most dangerous hacks and exploits specific to Unified Communications (UC) and lays out the anatomy of these attacks including how to make your system more secure. You will discover the best ways to defend against these vicious hacks with step-by-step instruction and learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable. The book describes the intersection of the various communication technologies that make up UC, including Voice over IP (VoIP), instant message (IM), and other collaboration technologies. There are seven chapters that focus on the following: attacks against the UC ecosystem and UC endpoints; eavesdropping and modification attacks; control channel attacks; attacks on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) trunks and public switched telephone network (PSTN) interconnection; attacks on identity; and attacks against distributed systems. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the threat along with some examples of the problem. This is followed by discussions of the anatomy, dangers, and future outlook of the threat as well as specific strategies on how to defend systems against the threat. The discussions of each threat are also organized around the themes of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This book will be of interest to information security professionals of all levels as well as recreational hackers. - Knowledge is power, find out about the most dominant attacks currently waging war on computers and networks globally- Discover the best ways to defend against these vicious attacks; step-by-step instruction shows you how- Institute countermeasures, don't be caught defenseless again, and learn techniques to make your computer and network impenetrable

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Outlook
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• ISBN-10: 1-59749-548-4 / 1597495484
• ISBN-13: 978-1-59749-548-6 / 9781597495486