this is the paragraph i look forward to in every book...

"I would especially like to thank my wife, Karen, for her encouragement. It was she who suggested I write this book and stood by me these past few months. Her unwavering support has not gone unnoticed. I have also my boys to thank for their encouragement. Kids, I'm finally done. Let's play."

"Of course, I wouldn't be able to accomplish much of anything without the support of my wife, Becky, and our two crumb-crunchers, Matthew (shorty) and Sarah (the Bunner). They keep me sane and centered. Well, centered, anyway."

SYN, ACK

4.5 Sites of Interest

Broadband Reports

http://www.dslreports.com/scan

CERT

http://www.cert.org

Cryptcat

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cryptcat/

DoS Help

http://www.doshelp.com/dostest.htm

Firewalk

http://www.packetfactory.net/projects/firewalk/

fragroute

http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/fragroute/

hping

http://www.hping.org

ID Serve

http://grc.com/id/idserve.htm

IEEE OUI and Company_id Assignments

http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

IP Calculator / IP Subnetting

http://jodies.de/ipcalc/

IP-Tools

http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/

ISECOM Security Tools

http://www.ideahamster.org/projects/operationaltools.htm

John the Ripper

http://www.openwall.com/john/

L0phtCrack LC4

http://www.atstake.com/research/lc/

libevent

http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

LibWhisker

http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/lw.asp

Netcat

http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/network_utilities/

GNU Netcat

http://netcat.sourceforge.net

Nessus

http://www.nessus.org

Nikto

http://www.cirt.net/code/nikto.shtml

Nmap

http://www.insecure.org/nmap/

The Packetfactory

http://www.packetfactory.net

Packetstromsecurity

http://packetstormsecurity.nl

Tenable Security

http://www.tenablesecurity.com

Razor Security

http://razor.bindview.com

Reverse WWW Shell

http://www.megasecurity.org/Sources/rwwwshell-1_6_perl.txt

Sam Spade

http://www.samspade.org

SANS

http://www.sans.org

SecurityFocus

http://www.securityfocus.com

SNMPwalk

http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/ucd-snmp/

Snot

http://www.stolenshoes.net/sniph/index.html

SSL Proxy

http://www.obdev.at/products/ssl-proxy/index.html

Stick

http://www.eurocompton.net/stick/projects8.html

Virusdot.org

http://www.governmentsecurity.org/articles/DefaultLoginsandPasswordsforNetworkedDevices.php

Whisker+SSL

http://www.digitaloffense.net


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