Defend against the ongoing wave of malware and rootkit assaults the failsafe Hacking Exposed way. Real-world case studies and examples reveal how today's hackers use readily available tools to infiltrate and hijack systems. Step-by-step countermeasures provide proven prevention techniques. Find out how to detect and eliminate malicious embedded code, block pop-ups and websites, prevent keylogging, and terminate rootkits. The latest intrusion detection, firewall, honeynet, antivirus, anti-rootkit, and anti-spyware technologies are covered in detail.

    * Understand how malware infects, survives, and propagates across an enterprise
    * Learn how hackers use archivers, encryptors, and packers to obfuscate code
    * Implement effective intrusion detection and prevention procedures
    * Defend against keylogging, redirect, click fraud, and identity theft threats
    * Detect, kill, and remove virtual, user-mode, and kernel-mode rootkits
    * Prevent malicious website, phishing, client-side, and embedded-code exploits
    * Protect hosts using the latest antivirus, pop-up blocker, and firewall software
    * Identify and terminate malicious processes using HIPS and NIPS