Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learnmore about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wireuncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them,as well as better understand and monitor their systems.

Silence on the Wire dissects several unique and fascinating security andprivacy problems associated with the technologies and protocols used in everydaycomputing, and shows how to use this knowledge to learn more about others or tobetter defend systems. By taking an indepth look at modern computing, from hardwareon up, the book helps the system administrator to better understand security issues,and to approach networking from a new, more creative perspective. The sys admin canapply this knowledge to network monitoring, policy enforcement, evidence analysis,IDS, honeypots, firewalls, and forensics.

Table of Contents

PART I: THE SOURCE
Chapter 1: I Can Hear You Typing
Chapter 2: Extra Efforts Never Go Unnoticed
Chapter 3: Ten Heads of the Hydra
Chapter 4: Working for the Common Good

PART II: SAFE HARBOR
Chapter 5: Blinkenlights
Chapter 6: Echoes of the Past
Chapter 7: Secure in Switched Networks
Chapter 8: Us versus Them

PART III: OUT IN THE WILD
Chapter 9: Foreign Accent
Chapter 10: Advanced Sheep-Counting Strategies
Chapter 11: In Recognition of Anomalies
Chapter 12: Stack Data Leaks
Chapter 13: Smoke and Mirrors
Chapter 14: Client Identification: Papers, Please!
Chapter 15: The Benefits of Being a Victim

PART IV: THE BIG PICTURE
Chapter 16: Parasitic Computing, or How Pennies Add Up
Chapter 17: Topology of the Network
Chapter 18: Watching the Void