Essential Skills for Hackers

Essential Skills for Hackers is about the skills you need to be in the elite hacker family. The book will mainly focus on two things: TCP/IP 101 and Protocol Analysis. The better the hacker, the more we will be able to master TCP/IP. Once the reader understands what TCP/IP is and what it looks like, the book will delve into Protocol Analysis and how analyzing the protocol, or in a more general sense, looking at packets on the wire, allows us to determine exactly what is taking place on a network. By doing this, readers can identify when something on the network doesn’t match what it should and, more importantly, can create any type of sequence of events or packets they want on the network and observe how the defenses or the machines they send them to react.

Presents a foundation for the skills required to be an elite hacker.