John Heasman

This much-anticipated revision, written by the ultimate group of top security experts in the world, features 40 percent new content on how to find security holes in any operating system or applicationNew material addresses the many new exploitation techniques that have been discovered since the first edition, including attacking "unbreakable" software packages such as McAfee's Entercept, Mac OS X, XP, Office 2003, and VistaAlso features the first-ever published information on exploiting Cisco's IOS, with content that has never before been exploredThe companion Web site features downloadable code files

The book will cover the how to break into and how to defend the most popular database server software. These include: Oracle Microsoft’s SQL Server IBM’s DB2 Postgres Sybase MySQL Each of these will be examined to show how hackers gain access using various methods from buffer overflow exploitation, privilege escalation through SQL, SQL injection and stored procedure and trigger abuse. Also discussed are those techniques that are specific to each database. With each attack topic presented, ways of preventing such abuse will be discussed.