Hacking

With a better understanding of hacking you get a better understanding of defence against hacking. To know your enemy is to defeat him/her.

It’s difficult to separate hacking from cyber security. The two areas are closely intertwined with cyber security being the inverse of hacking. Hacking attempts to subvert a system and cyber security attempts to shield a system from subversion. I can’t say this this section makes this separation completely however most material deals exclusively with subversion and less with prevention, although there are some exceptions. The intent is to bring forward those explicit tools and techniques which support and facilitate subversion. In this regard there are some excellent resources, mostly among the book listing.

The different sections can be categorized as follows: