Welcome to Hacking For Dummies, 3rd Edition. This book outlines —
in plain English — computer hacker tricks and techniques that you
can use to assess the security of your information systems, find the security
vulnerabilities that matter, and fix the weaknesses before criminal hackers
and malicious users take advantage of them. This hacking is the professional,
aboveboard, and legal type of security testing — which I call ethical hacking
throughout the book.