Authors: Tara Calishain.
Paperback, 325 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly
Publication Date: 2003-02-01
Edition: 1

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    The Internet puts a wealth of information at your fingertips, and all you have to know is how to find it. Google is your ultimate research tool--a search engine that indexes more than 2.4 billion web pages, in more than 30 languages, conducting more than 150 million searches a day. The more you know about Google, the better you are at pulling data off the Web. You've got a cadre of techniques up your sleeve--tricks you've learned from practice, from exchanging ideas with others, and from plain old trial and error--but you're always looking for better ways to search. It's the "hacker" in you: not the troublemaking kind, but the kind who really drives innovation by trying new ways to get things done. If this is you, then you'll find new inspiration (and valuable tools, too) in Google Hacks from O'Reilly's new Hacks Series. Google Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems. The book offers a variety of interesting ways for power users to mine the enormous amount of information that Google has access to, and helps you have fun while doing it. You'll learn clever and powerful methods for using the advanced search interface and the new Google API, including how to build and modify scripts that can become custom business applications based on Google. Google Hacks contains 100 tips, tricks and scripts that you can use to become instantly more effective in your research. Each hack can be read in just a few minutes, but can save hours of searching for the right answers. Written by experts for intelligent, advanced users, O'Reilly's new Hacks Series have begun to reclaim the term "hacking" for the good guys. In recent years the term "hacker" has come to be associated with those nefarious black hats who break into other people's computers to snoop, steal information, or disrupt Internet traffic. But the term originally had a much more benign meaning, and you'll still hear it used this way whenever developers get together. Our new Hacks Series is written in the spirit of true hackers--the people who drive innovation. If you're a Google power user, you'll find the technical edge you're looking for in Google Hacks....

    Everyone loves Google, and it's the first place many people turn to locate information on the Internet. There's a big gap, though, between knowing that you can use Google to get advance information on your blind date and having a handle on the considerable roster of fact-finding tools that the site makes available. Google Hacks reveals--and documents in considerable detail--a large collection of Google capabilities that many readers won't have even been aware of. Want to find the best price on a pair of leg warmers? Try the Froogle price-searcher that's hidden within the Google site. Interested in finding weblog commentary about a particular subject? Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest call your attention to the special Google syntaxes for that purpose. This book makes it clear that there's lots more to the Google site than typing in a few keywords and trusting the search engine to yield useful results.

If you're a programmer--or even just familiar with a HTML or a scripting language--Google opens up even further. A large part of Google Hacks concerns itself with the Google API (the collection of capabilities that Google exposes for use by software) and other programmers' resources. For example, the authors include a simple Perl application that queries the Google engine with terms specified by the user. They also document XooMLe, which delivers Google results in XML form. In brief, this is the best compendium of Google's lesser-known capabilities available anywhere, including the Google site itself. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to get the most from the Google search engine by using its Web-accessible features (including product searches, image searches, news searches, and newsgroup searches) and the large collection of desktop-resident toolbars available, as well as its advanced search syntax. Other sections have to do with programming with the Google API and simple "scrapes" of results pages, while further coverage addresses how to get your Web page to feature prominently in Google keyword searches....

Authors: Susan W Brenner.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2009-01-16


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    As new technologies develop, terrorist groups are developing new methods of attack by using the Internet, and by using cyberspace as a battlefield, it has become increasingly difficult to discover the identity of attackers and bring them to justice. The seemingly limitless boundaries of cyberspace has allowed virtually anyone to launch an attack from a remote and anonymous location. But once these attacks occur, it raises several important questions; who should respond, and how?; how should nation-states effectively deal with a cyber-attack?; and will the United States and other nation-states be able to survive in a world where virtual boundaries are limitless?
In Cyberthreats: The Emerging Fault Lines of the Nation State Susan Brenner gives a thorough explanation of how military and law enforcement personnel respond to these attacks and why bringing cyber-terrorist to justice can be difficult and sometimes impossible....

Authors: Woody Leonhard.
Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Publication Date: 1993-02


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    A new guide to Word for Windows word-processing software allows users to customize the software by using the underlying macro language, Word Basic....

Authors: Andrew Blyth. Gerald L. Kovacich.
Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2006-03-07
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

   

This updated edition was written to help IT managers and assets protection professionals to assure the protection and availability of vital digital information and related information systems assets, and contains major updates and 3 new chapters.

Bridging the gap between information security, information systems security and information warfare, it re-examines why organisations need to take information assurance seriously, and discusses the business, legal, and technical knowledge needed to secure these vital government and business assets.

Key topics include:

• The role of the corporate security officer;
• Corporate cybercrime;
• Electronic commerce and the global marketplace;
• Cryptography;
• International standards, policies and security acts.

"A refreshingly clear & wide-ranging view of Information Assurance...this book not only explains what the problems are, it also gives you clear information on how to address the issues that have been raised." (Dr. Andy Jones, Research Group Leader, BT Group Chief Technology Office UK)

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Authors: Graeme R. Newman. R. V. G. Clarke.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
Publication Date: 2003-08


Reviews :

    This work, written by two leading authorities in the field, provides a systematic application of concepts of situational crime prevention to internet and e-commerce crime, exploring ways in which concepts of crime prevention developed in other contexts can be fruitfully applied in this new environment. Their argument is that situational crime prevention works, and is ideally suited to proving the means of developing measures to combat rapidly growing e-commerce crime. Chapters in the book seek to identify the specific opportunities and transactions in which crime can occur in the e-commerce environment, and the different kinds of information which are crime targets - identified as intellectual property, intelligence, information systems and services of various kinds (banking, purchasing etc). Consumer products are also examined with a view to identifying the elements that make them particularly vulnerable to theft. In response a variety of techniques to counter e-commerce crime are identified, underpinned by seeking to increase the effort the criminal must make to carry out crime, increase the perceived risk of crime, reduce the anticipated rewards of crime, and remove excuses for the criminal....

Authors: et al.
Paperback, 357 pages
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Publication Date: 2006-05-25


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    Digital forensics is the science of collecting evidence often used in a court of law to prosecute those who engage in digital activities that are deemed unlawful. Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace is unique in putting together a number of contributions from leading experts in digital forensics and associated fields, making information on this new and complex subject available in one source of reference that addresses its multifaceted nature. The chapters in this book depict the nature of the crime and the motives of the criminals before proceeding to analyze the type of attacks one must understand in order to be prepared. Digital Crime and Forensic Science in Cyberspace also covers incident preparedness and the tools that are available to the digital investigator, as well as issues that pertain to the education and skills that this new professional must be able to display....

Authors: Kris Kaspersky.
Paperback, 500 pages
Publisher: A-List Publishing
Publication Date: 2005-06-01


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    Tips for the practical use of debuggers, such as NuMega SoftIce, Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger, and Microsoft Kernel Debugger, with minimum binding to a specific environment are disclosed in this debugger guide. How debuggers operate and how to overcome obstacles and repair debuggers is demonstrated. Programmers will learn how to look at what is inside a computer system, how to reconstruct the operating algorithm of a program distributed without source code, how to modify the program, and how to debug drivers. The use of debugging applications and drivers in Windows and Unix operating systems on Intel Pentium/DEC Alpha-based processors is also detailed....

Authors: Brian Wotring. Bruce Potter. Marcus Ranum.
Paperback, 450 pages
Publisher: Syngress
Publication Date: 2005-06-01
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Your IDS Just Detected an Attack: Was it Successful? This book is about one of the most crucial aspects of system and security management: host integrity protection. Fundamentally, host integrity protection is all about understanding the changes that occur on your system--friendly or hostile, deliberate or accidental--and understanding the impact of those changes. In other words, it's change control in a potentially hostile environment. Best of all, this book is written by Brian Wotring, who has designed and deployed host integrity monitoring systems, used them, and relied on their results. It's hard to overstate the value of such experience. Books like the one you're holding are the survival kits for the future of computing. They're full of the important clues that you're going to need if you want to be one of the survivors instead of the statistics.

--From the Foreword by Marcus J. Ranum

• Detect Successful Attacks Determine exactly which attacks successfully compromised your host environment.
• Download and Run Invaluable Scripts Use real-world scripts and configurations, which have been successfully deployed in enterprise host integrity monitoring solutions.
• Perform Damage Assessment Understand the extent to which a host was compromised, and learn exactly how the attacker penetrated your defenses.
• Reduce False Positives Learn how to dramatically reduce false positives, which can obfuscate your valuable, legitimate results.
• Monitor Your Entire Environment Develop a solution to monitor files, users and groups, the kernel, open network ports, privileged executables, and other runtime elements.
• Learn the Importance of Proper Planning Gain insight into successful planning, deployment, and administration of a working host integrity monitoring solution.
• Master Defensive Techniques Learn how to mitigate attacks on the host integrity monitoring system itself.
• Monitor Log Files and Create Notifications Use Swatch to monitor Osiris and Samhain log files, and create custom notification messages.
• Establish Audit Trails Create trusted audit trails of activity that can prove invaluable in forensic investigations.

Your Solutions Membership Gives You Access to: A comprehensive FAQ page that consolidates all of the key points of this book into an easy-to-search Web page

"From the Author" Forum where the authors post timely updates and links to related sites

Custom, working scripts from the book.

Downloadable chapters from these best-selling books:

• Snort 2.1 Intrusion Detection, Second Edition
• Ethereal Packet Sniffing
• Nessus Network Auditing
• Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit

TOC

Chapter 1 Host Integrity

Chapter 2 Understanding the Terrain

Chapter 3 Understanding Threats

Chapter 4 Planning

Chapter 5 Host Integrity Monitoring with Open Source Tools

Chapter 6 Osiris

Chapter 7 Samhain

Chapter 8 Log Monitoring and Response

Chapter 9 Advanced Strategies

Appendix A Monitoring Linksys Devices

Appendix B Extending Osiris and Samhain with Modules

Appendix C Further Reading

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Authors: Ankit Fadia.
Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Publication Date: 2005-12-07
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Is your mobile phone safe from hackers? What would you do if somebody broke into your mobile phone and stole all your sensitive e-mail? What about if someone cloned your phone and made countless long-distance phone calls? What if your address book got stolen and your loved ones started receiving malicious phone calls? What if someone broke into your mobile phone and used it to transfer funds out of your bank account? Although mobile phones are valuable tools for exchanging photos with loved ones, getting the latest sports updates, buying and selling stocks, and even running entire businesses, they have also become more dangerous than you might ever imagine. Computer criminals can hack into mobile phones to intercept data; spread viruses, worms, and mobile Trojans; steal identities; and much more. How can you defend yourself against these attacks? Simple-educate yourself with "Hacking Mobile Phones," which The Hindu calls the "first book on the subject aimed at educating users against mobile phone-related security loopholes, vulnerabilities, and attacks." The New Indian Express declares Fadia's book "an excellent guide for all mobile phone users." Deriving data from actual research experiments, code analysis, and case and consumer studies, this book will open your eyes to security threats, secrets, and loopholes that until now went unnoticed....

Authors: Mary Clifford.
Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2003-10-16


Reviews :

    For courses in Security Management, Private Security, and Introduction to Private Security. This new text gives students a rare, hands-on approach to the study of security issues before they actually find themselves employed in a specific security-related job. Written in a clear, easy-to-understand style, this book gives students the opportunity to look at this field from various perspectives. It grounds them firmly in the history and fundamentals of security, as well as prepares them for today's most difficult security challenges....