Attack servers, crack passwords, exploit services, beat encryption - everything you need to protect yourself from evil. There are two rules of computer security: one – don’t buy a computer; and two – if you have to buy a computer, don’t turn it on. If you break these rules then you’ll be opening yourself up to potential problems. No system is 100% safe from hackers, but by following a few simple steps you can make yours much harder for intruders to attack. Hacking is the art of gaining access to a computer system that you’re not supposed to access. Its practitioners exploit bugs and glitches in software to make it perform in ways it’s not supposed to. We’ll look at two ways in which they do this, and show you how to stop yourself from becoming a victim. We’ll gain root access to a system that will enable us to do anything we wish – from stealing information to wiping the hard drives. The attacks are real and performed on actual Linux systems (though in one case we use an ...
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