Ethical Hacking and Computer Securities For Beginners

Foreword

This book is written based on practical usage and research on computer security and networks. Basically everyone has strong concern about computer security networks where by it can sabotage the business and operations. It will be worse if the entire business operations are running on the website or web hosting company.

This book covers practical approach on software tools for ethical hacking. Some of the software tools covered are SQL Injection, Password Cracking, port scanning, packet sniffing and etc. Performing ethical hacking requires certain steps and procedures to be followed properly. A good ethical hacker will find information, identify weakness and finally perform some attacks on the target machine. Then the most crucial part would be to produce a good security audit report for the clients to understand their computer network conditions.

This book also explains and demonstrates step by step most of the software security tools for any beginners in the computer security field. Some of the software tools have been selected and utilized in computer security trainings and workshops.

About The Author

Mr Elaiya Iswera Lallan has been in the IT Industry for the past 12 years. He is the Managing Director of Blue Micro Solutions, which is based in SIRIM Bhd (Governmnet agency) .

Mr Lallan has extensive experience in the IT industry. He has recieved an award as a Federal Territory Entrepreneur. After obtaining his Bachelor Degree in Computers and Electronics Engineering from Kolej Bandar Utama (twinning program with University of Nottingham) in year 2001, he joined the company called MIR as a Information Technology Consultant .

He was performing computer programming tasks, and then joined as a software engineer in a new company called Neural Manufacturing Sdn Bhd. He had his best of experiences here when he was creating software technologies for the company’s flagship product called e-Jari, which is a biometric security device. He created an enterprise time attendance system for this device that can be used by other companies ranging from SMEs to government offices. Some of the companies using this time attendance system are PejabatTanah & Galian in Kuala Lumpur, Koperasi Malaysia, Bernama and ITIS.