A good defense starts with a thorough understanding of your opponent\'s offense. Hackers Beware teaches you how hackers think, what tools they use, and the techniques they utilize to compromise a machine. Eric Cole, a leading expert in information security, shows you not only how to detect these attacks, but what you can do to protect yourself against them. When it comes to securing your site, knowledge is power. This book gives you the knowledge to build a proper defense against hackers. Protect your site from attachers by understanding what an exploit is and how it can be used against you Examine the tools that are used to compromise systems in order to create better defense measures Identify the common attacks that account for the majority of system attacks Learn how to avoid buffer overflow attacks by error checking the scripts that your server runs Avoid session hijacking by implementing additional user authentication procedures during a user session Discover techniques to avoid IP and web spoofing, popular ways for an attacker to acquire information or gain access