Authors: Kim Schulz.
Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-05-25


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This book contains hacks that cover everything from personalizing Vim according to the user's work cycle to optimizations that will boost the user's productivity. It does not cover the basic tasks of using the editor but instead focuses on making life easier for experienced Vim users. It is written for Vim 7.0 , the latest stable version.

Each chapter of this book deals with a different aspect, and provides recipes for easy-to-use hacks to customize and simplify your Vim experience. After an introduction covering the derivation of Vim and its relatives from the vi editor, the author explains basic changes that you can make to the appearance of the Vim editor. Further chapters cover improved navigation through files and buffers in Vim; speeding up your work with templates, auto-completion, folding, sessions, and registers; and formatting text and code, including using external formatting scripts. The final comprehensive chapter covers everything about using Vim scripts and scripting to extend functionality.

Vim stands for Vi IMproved and is the editor of choice for programmers looking for a highly configurable, stable, open-source, multi-platform text editor. It is included with almost every Linux distribution as the standard text editor, and can be used to work with source code from any language. A big advantage of using Vim is that it can be extensively customized; you can control the basic interface, define personalized key mappings, implement macros, and call external or user-defined scripts. Vim has its own scripting language that allows for plug-in like extensions to enable IDE behavior, syntax scripts and highlighting, color schemes, themes, and utility scripts that can add a wide range of features and functionality.

Vim 7.0, for which this book is written, includes spell-checking, code completion, document tabs, current line and column highlighting, undo branches, and more.

• Create, install, and use Vim scripts
• Personalize your work-area
• Optimize your Vim editor to be faster and more responsive

Anyone who has worked with Vim and wants to get more out of this legendary text editor can use the hacks from this book. It does not cover the basic tasks of using the editor but instead focuses on making life easier for more experienced Vim users.

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Authors: Shaheen Shariff.
Paperback, 299 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2008-04-11
Edition: 1

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    This book looks in depth at the emerging issue of cyber-bullying. In this increasingly digital world cyber-bullying has emerged as an electronic form of bullying that is difficult to monitor or supervise because it often occurs outside the physical school setting and outside school hours on home computers and personal phones. These web-based and mobile technologies are providing young people with what has been described as: 'an arsenal of weapons for social cruelty'. These emerging issues have created an urgent need for a practical book grounded in comprehensive scholarship that addresses the policy-vacuum and provides practical educational responses to cyber-bullying.Written by one of the few experts on the topic, "Cyber-Bullying" develops guidelines for teachers, head teachers and administrators regarding the extent of their obligations to prevent and reduce cyber-bullying. The book also highlights ways in which schools can network with parents, police, technology providers and community organizations to provide support systems for victims (and perpetrators) of cyber-bullying....

Authors: William R. Cheswick. Steven M. Bellovin. Aviel D. Rubin.
Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2003-03-06
Edition: 2

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    The best-selling first edition of Firewalls and Internet Security became the bible of Internet security by showing readers how to think about threats and solutions. The completely updated and expanded second edition defines the security problems students face in today's Internet, identifies the weaknesses of the most popular security technologies, and illustrates the ins and outs of deploying an effective firewall. Students learn how to plan and execute a security strategy that allows easy access to Internet services while defeating even the wiliest of hackers. Written by well-known senior researchers at AT&T Bell Labs, Lumeta, and Johns Hopkins University the students will benefit from the actual, real-world experiences of the authors maintaining, improving, and redesigning AT&T's Internet gateway....

    Essential information for anyone wanting to protect Internet-connected computers from unauthorized access. Includes:

• thorough discussion of security-related aspects of TCP/IP;
• step-by-step plans for setting up firewalls;
• hacking and monitoring tools the authors have built to rigorously test and maintain firewalls;
• pointers to public domain security tools on the net;
• first-hand step-by-step accounts of battles with the "Berferd" hackers; and
• practical discussions of the legal aspects of security.

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Authors: Greg Holden.
Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Course Technology
Publication Date: 2003-04-15
Edition: 1

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    Provides comprehensive overview of building and maintaining firewalls in a business environment, and maps to the objectives of CheckPointÆs CCSA certification....

Authors: Frank P. Williams III. Marilyn D. McShane.
Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2009-01-12
Edition: 5

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    For courses in Criminology. Taking a sociological perspective, this book discusses the major theories of crime--from classical theories to new theories such as Cultural Criminology and Peacemaking Criminology. The book offers a balanced presentation--presenting each theory's social and intellectual heritage, perspective and assumptions and major concepts. This edition includes updates on current crime theories, critical thinking questions at the end of each chapter and additional examples that connect crime theories to real life....

Authors: Geeks On Call.
Paperback, 216 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2005-12-19


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    Bringing order to the lawless frontier

Almost daily, the boomtown growth of online activity generates more opportunities for cybercrime, identity theft, loss of data, and invasion of your privacy. To this lawless high-tech frontier comes the cavalry, mounted on (or in) blue PT Cruisers--Geeks On Call. Now they're helping you build that all-important first line of defense, with quick, easy-to-follow solutions to the most common security problems, plus simple steps you can take to protect your computer, your privacy, and your personal information--today.
* Keep your virus protection up to date
* Identify and remove spyware
* Recognize phishing scams
* Practice safe chatting and instant messaging
* Learn to encrypt data for security
* Protect your laptop and wireless connection
* Create secure passwords
* Safely use public computers

Geeks On Call(r) is the premier provider of on-site computer services. The certified, trained and tested technicians from Geeks On Call provide expert computer installation and networking services, on-site repairs, security solutions and system upgrades for residential and commercial customers numbering in the hundreds of thousands each year. Founded in 1999, Geeks On Call began franchising in 2001. For more information, call 1-800-905-GEEK or visit www.geeksoncall.com. Geeks On Call franchises are independently owned and operated....

Authors: Ben Hammersley.
Paperback, 284 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2005-12-19


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• The first book to unlock the true power behind Gmail, Hacking Gmail will immediately appeal to Google and Gmail fans
• This is serious, down-and-dirty, under-the-hood, code-level hacking that will have readers eliminating the default settings, customizing appearance, disabling advertising, and taking control over their Gmail accounts
• Covers turning Gmail into an online hard drive for backing up files, using it as a blogging tool, and even creating customized Gmail tools and hacks
• Shows readers how to check their Gmail without visiting the site; use Gmail APIs in Perl, Python, PHP, and other languages, or create their own; and maximize Gmail as a host for message boards, photo galleries, even a blog

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Authors: Julie E Mehan.
Paperback, 284 pages
Publisher: IT Governance Ltd
Publication Date: 2008-04-15


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    CyberWar, CyberTerror, CyberCrime introduces readers to the practical use of standards and best practices to address significant security problems, such as those presented by cyberwar, cyberterror, and cybercrime. It also identifies a body of knowledge essential to acquire, develop, and sustain a secure information environment The rapid development of the Internet is not without its benefits and costs. The Internet is now an almost universal trade space for economic transactions, government decisions, and social interaction. At the same time, it is a largely unstructured terrain with few legal limitations and rules. The result has been a digital 'wild, wild West' with the Internet providing a fertile feeding ground for cyberwarriors, cyberterrorists, and cybercriminals. In the past two decades, data and information security has emerged as a global concern. Because of the increasing value of information in our life, an environment where it can be processed, stored, and transmitted correctly and securely is essential. This book provides a new context for addressing some of the broader challenges of security.It encourages security professionals to look at the dangerous environment in which information systems exist, and to view the world of international standards and best practices as a resource for creating a culture of security within their own organizations....

Authors: Lance Spitzner.
Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2002-09-20


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    Honeypots are highly sophisticated technologies used to observe and learn about hackers. Practical and commercial interest in these new forms of hacker defense is now hitting the mainstream. There are many successful commercial honeypots, including ManTrap and Specter. Security expert Marcus Ranum notes in his Foreword, "Right now there are about a half-dozen commercial honeypot products on the market. Within a year, I predict there will be dozens. Within two years, there will be a hundred." Spitzner also covers legal issues, one of the most controversial subjects concerning honeypots, receiving extensive guidance from the Department of Justice in writing the legal material. The book, Know Your Enemy was written by a team of authors, and focuses on a special type of honeypot via a research project called The Honeynet Project. This new book is written by the acknowledged honeypot expert and discusses many different types of honeypot technologies. They are perfect companion books. Get a strong foundation with "Honeypots" and explore more details of honeypot deployment with Know Your Enemy....

Authors: Sam Williams.
Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 2002-03-01


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    Free as in Freedom interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success. Free as in Freedom examines one man's 20-year attempt to codify and communicate the ethics of 1970s era "hacking" culture in such a way that later generations might easily share and build upon the knowledge of their computing forebears. The book documents Stallman's personal evolution from teenage misfit to prescient adult hacker to political leader and examines how that evolution has shaped the free software movement. Like Alan Greenspan in the financial sector, Richard Stallman has assumed the role of tribal elder within the hacking community, a community that bills itself as anarchic and averse to central leadership or authority. How did this paradox come about? Free as in Freedom provides an answer. It also looks at how the latest twists and turns in the software marketplace have diminished Stallman's leadership role in some areas while augmenting it in others. Finally, Free as in Freedom examines both Stallman and the free software movement from historical viewpoint. Will future generations see Stallman as a genius or crackpot? The answer to that question depends partly on which side of the free software debate the reader currently stands and partly upon the reader's own outlook for the future. 100 years from now, when terms such as "computer," "operating system" and perhaps even "software" itself seem hopelessly quaint, will Richard Stallman's particular vision of freedom still resonate, or will it have taken its place alongside other utopian concepts on the 'ash-heap of history?'...