Linux and Unix Security Portable Reference

Part I: Hacking Techniques and Defenses 1: Footprinting 2: Scanning and Identification 3: Enumeration 4: Remote Hacking 5: Privilege Escalation 6: Hiding Part II: Host Hardening 7: Default Settings and Services 8: User and File-System Privileges 9: Logging and Patching Part III: Special Topics 10: Nessus Attack Scripting Language (NASL) 11: Wireless Hacking 12: Hacking with the Sharp Zaurus PDA

Nitesh Dhanjani is a well known security researcher, author, and speaker. Dhanjani is currently Senior Manager at a large consulting firm where he advises some of the largest corporations around the world on how to establish enterprise wide information security programs and solutions. Dhanjani is also responsible for evangelizing brand new technology service lines around emerging technologies and trends such as cloud computing and virtualization.Prior to his current job, Dhanjani was Senior Director of Application Security and Assessments at a major credit bureau where he spearheaded brand new security efforts into enhancing the enterprise SDLC, created a process for performing source code security reviews & Threat Modeling, and managed the Attack & Penetration team.Dhanjani is the author of "Network Security Tools: Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools" (O'Reilly) and "HackNotes: Linux and Unix Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). He is also a contributing author to "Hacking Exposed 4" (Osborne McGraw-Hill) and "HackNotes: Network Security". Dhanjani has been invited to talk at various information security events such as the Black Hat Briefings, RSA, Hack in the Box, Microsoft Blue Hat, and OSCON.Dhanjani graduated from Purdue University with both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science.Dhanjani's personal blog is located at dhanjani.com.