Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace

€“ Dr. Craig S. Wright (GSE), Asia Pacific Director at Global Institute for Cyber Security + Research.

 

€œIt€s like a symphony meeting an encyclopedia meeting a spy novel.€

€“Michael Ford, Corero Network Security

 

On the Internet, every action leaves a mark€“in routers, firewalls, web proxies, and within network traffic itself. When a hacker breaks into a bank, or an insider smuggles secrets to a competitor, evidence of the crime is always left behind.

 

Learn to recognize hackers€ tracks and uncover network-based evidence in Network Forensics: Tracking Hackers through Cyberspace. Carve suspicious email attachments from packet captures. Use flow records to track an intruder as he pivots through the network. Analyze a real-world wireless encryption-cracking attack (and then crack the key yourself). Reconstruct a suspect€s web surfing history€“and cached web pages, too€“from a web proxy. Uncover DNS-tunneled traffic. Dissect the Operation Aurora exploit, caught on the wire.

 

Throughout the text, step-by-step case studies guide you through the analysis of network-based evidence. You can download the evidence files from the authors€ web site (lmgsecurity.com), and follow along to gain hands-on experience.

 

Hackers leave footprints all across the Internet. Can you find their tracks and solve the case? Pick up Network Forensics and find out.