A landmark compilation of essays by security experts addresses the impact on today's common security problems of human-computer interaction, discussing the link between issues of software usability and network security problems, future cyber-security, the challenges confronting designers of security and privacy software, potential solutions, and more. Original. (Intermediate-Advanced)

Product Description: When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume...read more

Product Description: When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume...read more

Product Description: Cocoa is an object-oriented development environment available in Apple's Mac OS X environment. Mac OS X, a unified operating system and graphical operating environment, is the fastest growing Unix variant on the market today. Hard-core Unix programmers, developers who cut their teeth on classic Mac operating systems, and developers who cherished NeXTSTEP, the decade-old system on which today's Cocoa is based -- all are flocking to Cocoa, and they need a lot more practical information than is currently available from Apple...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the first edition of this classic reference was published, World Wide Web use has exploded and e-commerce has become a daily part of business and personal life. As Web use has grown, so have the threats to our security and privacy--from credit card fraud to routine invasions of privacy by marketers to web site defacements to attacks that shut down popular web sites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights--still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to discuss privacy issues...read more

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Offers practical advice on how to get rid of electronic 'spam,' including junk messages, unsolicited ads, and inappropriate news articles, and explains how and why they are being sent (view table of contents)

A study of the growing issue of Web security examines the latest in Internet techologies and the growing risks, as well as the best available strategies for minimizing the dangers, discussing CGI/API programming, cryptography, SSL, digital IDs, electronic commerce, and legal issues. Original. (Intermediate).

Product Description: Use of the Internet is expanding beyond anyone's expectations. As corporations, government offices, and ordinary citizens begin to rely on the information highway to conduct business, they are realizing how important it is to protect their communications -- both to keep them a secret from prying eyes and to ensure that they are not altered during transmission...read more

Product Description: This text for UNIX haters unmasks the myths about UNIX.

Product Description: If you are a UNIX system administrator or user who deals with security, you need this book. It's a practical guide that spells out your options for both Berkeley UNIX and System V. It's complete, rational, and doesn't require that you be a programmer to use it...read more