I went to Hacker School this past week, sponsored by our good friends at Microsoft. Yes Microsoft hired a Network Security Specialist to teach me to exploit their software, cool!
Virus infections, Trojans, scripting attacks, denial of service,TCP eavesdropping, man-in-the-middle attacks, it was more fun then Summer Camp! We learned attack Phases and phrases, footprinting and footprinting tools. Scanning and System Penetration, Privilege Escalation and Evidence Elimination., DNS Lookup Tools, Ping Sweeps and Traceroute.
Password Cracking, once you see L0PHTCRACK in action you will change ALL your passwords! If you are running Windows 2000 or XP there is a very good chance you have a huge open BACKDOOR, check to see if your admin account has a very, very good password. Can someone HTTPTUNNEL through your firewall? ? ? ? The only countermeasure is to harden your network and the time to act is now.