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The Art of Deception is about gaining someone’s trust by lying to them and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism “social engineering” and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines many example scenarios.
After Mitnick’s first dozen examples anyone responsible for organizational security is going to lose the will [...]
The Chief Security Officer helps readers understand the emerging phenomenon of a position that combines the traditional security manager with one who protects information. It explains why a chief security officer is important and how security needs to be implemented in terms of identifying risk, developing a corporate policy, and implementing unified strategy [...]
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Amazon.com
Steven Levy’s classic book explains why the misuse of the word "hackers" to describe computer criminals does a terrible disservice to many important shapers of the digital revolution. Levy follows members of an MIT model railroad club–a group of brilliant budding electrical engineers and computer innovators–from [...]
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Amazon.com
Everyone in computing has heard of Linux–hundreds of millions use it every day. Every Net user accesses Linux systems dozens of times during any Net session. Yet, because people associate products with companies, Linux–with its thousands of largely anonymous volunteer developers and free [...]
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Amazon.com
Gigantically comprehensive and carefully researched, Security Engineering makes it clear just how difficult it is to protect information systems from corruption, eavesdropping, unauthorized use, and general malice. Better, Ross Anderson offers a lot of thoughts on how information can be made more secure (though probably not [...]
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Amazon.co.uk
The Art of Deception is about gaining someone’s trust by lying to them and then abusing that trust for fun and profit. Hackers use the euphemism “social engineering” and hacker-guru Kevin Mitnick examines many example scenarios.
After Mitnick’s first dozen examples anyone responsible for organizational security is [...]
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From Library Journal
One of the leading information security and electronic privacy experts in the United States, Schwartau (Information Warfare) here brings the perils of the Internet to life in an engaging style accessible to the average reader. Schwartau describes an Internet full of criminal hackers and [...]
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Product Description
It’s your job to make email safe.
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In today’s national and global enterprises where business is conducted across time zones and continents, the “e” in email could stand for “essential.” Even more critical is rock-solid [...]
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A guide for anyone who wants to protect themselves when they go online, or wants to know more about the subject of internet privacy and security. Softcover.
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From Publishers Weekly
It would be difficult to find an author with more credibility than Mitnick to write about the art of hacking. In 1995, he was arrested for illegal computer snooping, convicted and held without bail for two years before being released in 2002. He clearly [...]
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