Zittrain's extraordinary book pieces together the engine that has catapulted the Internet ecosystem into the prominence it has today--and explains that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success.
Apache is far and away the most widely used web server platform in the world. Both free and rock-solid, it runs more than half of the world's web sites, ranging from huge e-commerce operations to corporate intranets and smaller hobby sites, and it continues to maintain its popularity, drawing new users all the time. If you work with Apache on a ...
"I finally get it! I used to hear words like rootkit, buffer overflow, and idle scanning, and they just didn't make any sense. I asked other people and they didn't seem to know how these things work, or at least they couldn't explain them in a way that I could understand. Counter Hack Reloaded is the clearest explanation of these tools I have ever ...
This is an advanced cookbook and reference guide for digital forensic practitioners. File System Forensic Analysis focuses on the file system and disk. The file system of a computer is where most files are stored and where most evidence is found; it also the most technically challenging part of forensic analysis. This book offers an overview ...
The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a compilation of best practice solutions to the most challenging CSS problems. The second edition of this best-selling book, now in full color, has been completely revised and updated to cover the latest techniques and newer browsers, including Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7. It's the ...
Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" - clever shortcuts and lesser-known, faster ways to complete a task - in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com's online archive. Every chapter describes an overarching ...
"Web Security Testing Cookbook" gives developers and testers the tools they need to make security testing a regular part of their development lifecycle. You'll find recipes related to manual, exploratory testing as well as recipes for automated security testing that you can make part of your regression cycle. The recipes cover the basics like ...
For courses in Network Security. Intrusion detection is one of the hottest growing areas of network security. As the number of corporate, government, and educational networks grow and as they become more and more interconnected through the Internet, there is a correlating increase in the types and numbers of attacks to penetrate those networks. ...
A comprehensive and practical text and the perfect starting point for this subject ...'Is this system secure?' seems, on the face of it, a straightforward question. Yet how one arrives at an answer is a process which poses a wide range of more complex questions which require a basic understanding of security mechanisms. Questions, such as: Should ...
The Internet is amazing, but the risks you've heard about are real, too. You can avoid being a victim of online crime with the simple steps for staying safe online that you'll find in "Using the Internet Safely For Seniors For Dummies". Here's the guide you need to steer safely through the hazards so you can shop, visit, invest, explore, pay bills ...
The internationally bestselling "Hacking Exposed" series now covers VoIP New in the tried-and-true. "Hacking Exposed" series is this comprehensive guide to security for Voice over IP. VoIP is a powerful new communications technology that is prone to attacks such as SPIT, Voicemail Brute forcing, Caller ID Spoofing, Registration Hijacking, active ...
For introductory and intermediate courses in computer forensics, digital investigations, or computer crime investigation By applying information systems, computer security, and criminal justice principles and practices to crime investigations and other legal actions, this text teaches students how to use forensically-sound methodologies and ...
Implement bulletproof e-business security the proven Hacking Exposed way. Defend against the latest Web-based attacks by looking at your Web applications through the eyes of a malicious intruder. Fully revised and updated to cover the latest Web exploitation techniques, "Hacking Exposed Web Applications, Second Edition" shows you, step-by-step, ...
Security continues to be an important topic for networkers looking to protect their organizations infrastructure, data and Web facilities. The growth in popularity of the Cisco Security specialization is proof of that interest. Cisco Secure PIX Firewalls it is the official coursebook for two of the courses required for that certification, but is ...
'If your job requires investigating compromised Windows hosts, you must read Windows Forensic Analysis' - Richard Bejtlich, Co-author of "Real Digital Forensics" and Amazon.com Top 500 Book Reviewer. 'The Registry Analysis chapter alone is worth the price of the book' -Troy Larson, Senior Forensic Investigator of Microsoft's IT Security Group. 'I ...
This second edition of "Building Internet Firewalls" covers Unix, Linux, and Windows NT. It is a practical and detailed guide which provides step-by-step explanations of how to design and install firewalls, and how to configure Internet services to work with a firewall. It covers a wide range of services and protocols (for example, SMTP, FTP, DNS, ...
Windows Server 2003 Networking Recipes is ideal for network managers and Windows Server 2003 system administrators responsible for setting up and running computers and networks. Think of this book as the comprehensive, task-based guide to installing, deploying, and configuring the various networking protocols and services supported by Windows ...
From the author who made "hacker" a household word comes a groundbreaking book about the most hotly debated subject of the digital age. "Crypto" concerns privacy in the information age and about the nerds and visionaries who, nearly 20 years ago, predicted that the Internet's greatest virtue--free access to information--was also its most perilous ...
This second edition is a complete rewrite of the original book and is packed with twice the pages and offers even more practical information for UNIX users and administrators. In it you'll find coverage of features of many types of UNIX systems, including SunOS, Solaris, BSDI, AIX, HP-UX, Digital UNIX, Linux, and others. Contents include UNIX and ...
This book is a practical guide to discovering and exploiting security flaws in web applications. The authors explain each category of vulnerability using real-world examples, screen shots and code extracts. The book is extremely practical in focus, and describes in detail the steps involved in detecting and exploiting each kind of security ...
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks have freed users from the tyranny of big telecom, allowing people to make phone calls over the Internet at very low or no cost. But while VoIP is easy and cheap, it's notoriously lacking in security. With minimal effort, hackers can eavesdrop on conversations, disrupt phone calls, change caller IDs, ...
This book provides professionals with the necessary managerial, technical, and legal background to support investment decisions in security technology. It discusses security from the perspective of "hackers" (i.e., technology issues and defenses) and "lawyers" (i.e., legal issues and defenses). This cross-disciplinary book is designed to help ...
In 2003, fraud and identity theft cost consumers at least $437 million dollars. In 2004, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission received 247,000 consumer complaints in 2004 (up 15% from 2003), from individuals whose identity was stolen, and according to Reuters.com (2/2005), Americans lost $548 million dollars to identity theft and consumer fraud in ...
National bestseller with over 175,000 copies sold! If you thought hacking was just about mischief-makers hunched over computers in the basement, think again. As seasoned author Wallace Wang explains, hacking can also mean questioning the status quo, looking for your own truths, and never accepting at face value anything authorities say or do. The ...
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