Authors: Roger Sutton.
Hardcover, 346 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2002-01-18
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    If you need to know more about communication's security management, this is the perfect book for you...

Secure Communications confronts the practicalities of implementing the ideals of the security policy makers. Based on 15 years experience, the author addresses the key problems faced by security managers, starting from network conception, initial setting up and the maintenance of network security by key management. Many different types of communications networks are discussed using a wide range of topics, including voice, telephone, mobile phone, radio, fax, data transmission and storage, IP, and Email technologies. Each topic is portrayed in a number of different operational environments.
* Explains the practical links between cryptography and telecommunications
* Addresses the pertinent issues of implementation of cryptography as a method of protecting information
* Supports each communications technology and the fundamentals of cryptography with useful and relevant telecommunications material
* Provides practical solutions by network modelling and stimulating the reader's imagination on how to deal with their own network protection
* Highlights the need for a structured infrastructure in an organisation's security that complements the technical solutions
Easy to read and highly illustrated, this timely publication probes the sensitive issues that manufacturers and agencies prefer to avoid and uses eye opening, historical events, to highlight the failings and weaknesses of the past and present. So if you work within the areas of telecommunications and security or are a researcher or student eager to know more, read on......

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Hardcover, 378 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-08-23
Edition: 1

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ADVANCES IN DIGITAL FORENSICS III

Edited by: Philip Craiger and Sujeet Shenoi

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence. Networked computing, wireless communications and portable electronic devices have expanded the role of digital forensics beyond traditional computer crime investigations. Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence; digital forensics provides the techniques and tools to articulate this evidence. Digital forensics also has myriad intelligence applications. Furthermore, it has a vital role in information assurance -- investigations of security breaches yield valuable information that can be used to design more secure systems.

Advances in Digital Forensics III describes original research results and innovative applications in the emerging discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations. The areas of coverage include:

- Legal Issues

- Insider Threat Detection

- Rootkit Detection

- Authorship Attribution

- Forensic Techniques

- File System Forensics

- Network Forensics

- Portable Electronic Device Forensics

- Evidence Analysis and Management

- Formal Methods

This book is the third volume in the annual series produced by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 11.9 on Digital Forensics, an international community of scientists, engineers and practitioners dedicated to advancing the state of the art of research and practice in digital forensics. The book contains a selection of twenty-four edited papers from the Third Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at the National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando, Florida, USA in the spring of 2007.

Advances in Digital Forensics III is an important resource for researchers, faculty members and graduate students, as well as for practitioners and individuals engaged in research and development efforts for the law enforcement and intelligence communities.

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Authors: Jody Westby.
Paperback, 260 pages
Publisher: American Bar Association
Publication Date: 2003-02-25


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    Online Version - Discusses current cybercrime laws and practices. Available online for downloading....

Authors: Michael Chesbro.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Paladin Press
Publication Date: 2001-09


Reviews :

    We are fast approaching a time when all our private communications will be monitored as a matter of course - just in case we might have some criminal intent, politically incorrect thought or uncommon belief. The files we store on our home or work computers and the messages we send over the Internet are fair game for those who would snoop into and record our private lives. The only way most of us can reclaim a modicum of privacy is through file encryption and security programs designed to keep prying eyes away from our secrets. Fortunately, there are many programs that are not only incredibly effective in guarding our privacy but are available absolutely free of charge. In this book, Michael Chesbro (The Complete Guide to E-Security, Privacy for Sale) outlines some of the most popular freeware encryption and security programs available. You will learn how to determine which programs are best for you, how to securely destroy files and the advantages of file sharing. The cost of using these programs is zero. But if you don't learn to use them, it could cost you your privacy or even your freedom....

Authors: Anne P. Mintz.
Paperback, 278 pages
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Edition: 1

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    As the Internet has become flooded with untrustworthy information, some of which is intentionally misleading or erroneous, this book teaches Web surfers how inaccurate data can affect their health, privacy, investments, business decisions, online purchases, and legal affairs. Bringing together the world's leading information-age observers, analysts, writers, and practitioners, this analysis reveals the Web as fertile ground for deception and misinformation. These experts provide hard-won advice on how to recognize misinformation in its myriad forms and disguises. Included are an array of tips on how to evaluate Web sites for quality and bias, checklists for navigating the Internet more effectively, and advice for those who have been duped....

Authors: Bernadette H. Schell. John L. Dodge.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Quorum Books
Publication Date: 2002-11-30


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    Hackers get a bad rap. Businesses, industries, and even society as a whole covet their skills, yet they are often misunderstood and frequently despised. Is their vilification justified? This is the first book to use previously validated psychological inventories to explore and profile the personalities and behavioral traits of more than 200 self-admitted hackers. Many of the profiled are at the top of their game, revered by both the good hackers ("white hats") and their more malevolent peers ("black hats"). While there are serious reasons to fear the darker elements of the hacker community, there is also much to admire in their nobler counterparts. Fascinating case studies on hackers who have been caught and convicted of their crimes, as well as those betrayed by their peers, offer a unique, credible understanding of what makes hackers tick. The authors examine current laws meant to control hacking and its collateral crimes--stalking and terrorism--along with other means of reining in the irresponsible "scriptkiddies" and vicious "black hats." Moderated and balanced, this book is an easy-to-read, authoritative source information for anyone interested in who hackers are, and how much we should worry about them....

Authors: Joseph Migga Kizza.
Hardcover, 439 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-08-02
Edition: 3rd

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Ethical dilemmas have risen in number and intensity with the increasing dependence of contemporary society on computers and computer networks. Despite the proliferation of expert remedies, viable solutions to computer security issues remain too elusive, and society continues to suffer at the hands of cyber criminals, vandals, and hackers.

This comprehensive third edition of the successful Ethical and Social Issues in the Information Age takes off where the second ended to examine ethical, social, and policy challenges stemming from the emergence of cyberspace, the convergence of telecommunication and computing technologies, and the miniaturalization of computing, telecommunication, and information-enabling devices. This accessible volume broadly surveys thought-provoking questions about the impact of these new technologies, with particular emphasis on the rapid growth of a multitude of computer networks, including the Internet. It assumes only a very modest familiarity with the basic computer literacy.

Topics and features:

• Describes how changes in information technology influence morality and the law

• Provides fundamental discussion of network-security system design and operation to reveal vulnerable areas in computer network infrastructure (NEW chapter)

• Surveys the history of computing and the evolution of computer crimes

• Explores biometric techniques to system access control (NEW chapter)

• Incorporates recent requirements for computer curricula

• Introduces and explores techniques in electronic crime investigation (NEW chapter)

• Assesses workplace concerns related to privacy, surveillance, and virtual offices

• Offers a pertinent discussion on civil liberties, harassment, and discrimination

• Contains chapter-ending exercises, and the author provides instructor classroom support materials and teaching guides at his website

This newly revised text/reference provides an updated discussion of the ethical and social issues that continue to evolve as computing and information technologies proliferate. Students at all levels who need to learn about computer ethics, the legal aspects of computing, network security, computer crime investigation, and biometrics will find this well documented work an invaluable resource. The book is also highly useful for practitioners needing such insights for their work.

Supplementary material can be found at: www.utc.edu/faculty/Joseph-Kizza

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Hardcover, 508 pages
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Publication Date: 2008-01-29


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    In the last decade there has been a phenomenal growth in interest in crime pattern analysis. Geographic information systems are now widely used in urban police agencies throughout industrial nations. With this, scholarly interest in understanding crime patterns has grown considerably.

Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems discusses leading research on the use of computer simulation of crime patterns to reveal hidden processes of urban crimes, taking an interdisciplinary approach by combining criminology, computer simulation, and geographic information systems into one comprehensive resource....

Authors: Russ Rogers.
Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Syngress
Publication Date: 2005-02-10
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Could you find a hidden terrorist message in time to save innocent lives?

"Russ has done it again, a great story teller in person and from the printed page. The bad news is, this is not just another story, it is the cold frightening and exacting truth about the world that we now live in...everyday" --Chet Hosmer, CEO, WetStone Technologies, Inc.

• Discover a hidden world of covert communications
• Immerse yourself in the technology
• Create your own hidden messages with over 100 included tools

In Hacking a Terror Network, Russ Rogers uses a fictional scenario to demonstrate how terrorists may use the Internet to coordinate and launch a new series of terrorist attacks. While the scenario may be fictitious, the techniques and technologies that Russ uses are drawn straight from the computer security world. It makes for a great read as well as provides a blueprint to the workings of covert channels. Most importantly, it describes how law enforcement agencies and intelligence organizations can detect, defend and destroy threats. This book is packed with real-life examples of how tools work, including screenshots and narrative tutorials. Both amateurs and seasoned security professionals will benefit from reading this book. --from the Foreword by Matthew G. Devost, President and CEO, Terrorism Research Center, Inc.

There is a plot underway to attack American interests...

A decade-old grudge against the West comes to fruition as a child follows the path of the father's hatred for America and vows to avenge a brother. The American dream is in danger and can be saved only through the diligence and imagination of one man. An American agent suspects a plot but needs to prove it in order to draw attention to the danger. But how are the terrorists communicating? He needs to break the code to stop the plot that could kill thousands of innocent people....

Authors: Winn Schwartau.
Paperback, 768 pages
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Publication Date: 1996-09
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

    An expert on electronic privacy shows how "information warriors" are able to gain access to and use computerized data on ordinary individuals, and the threat such use poses to citizens and to national security. Original. Tour. IP. ...