Authors: Joel Scambray.
Paperback, 451 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2007-12-04
Edition: 3

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The latest Windows security attack and defense strategies

"Securing Windows begins with reading this book." --James Costello (CISSP) IT Security Specialist, Honeywell

Meet the challenges of Windows security with the exclusive Hacking Exposed "attack-countermeasure" approach. Learn how real-world malicious hackers conduct reconnaissance of targets and then exploit common misconfigurations and software flaws on both clients and servers. See leading-edge exploitation techniques demonstrated, and learn how the latest countermeasures in Windows XP, Vista, and Server 2003/2008 can mitigate these attacks. Get practical advice based on the authors' and contributors' many years as security professionals hired to break into the world's largest IT infrastructures. Dramatically improve the security of Microsoft technology deployments of all sizes when you learn to:

• Establish business relevance and context for security by highlighting real-world risks
• Take a tour of the Windows security architecture from the hacker's perspective, exposing old and new vulnerabilities that can easily be avoided
• Understand how hackers use reconnaissance techniques such as footprinting, scanning, banner grabbing, DNS queries, and Google searches to locate vulnerable Windows systems
• Learn how information is extracted anonymously from Windows using simple NetBIOS, SMB, MSRPC, SNMP, and Active Directory enumeration techniques
• Prevent the latest remote network exploits such as password grinding via WMI and Terminal Server, passive Kerberos logon sniffing, rogue server/man-in-the-middle attacks, and cracking vulnerable services
• See up close how professional hackers reverse engineer and develop new Windows exploits
• Identify and eliminate rootkits, malware, and stealth software
• Fortify SQL Server against external and insider attacks
• Harden your clients and users against the latest e-mail phishing, spyware, adware, and Internet Explorer threats
• Deploy and configure the latest Windows security countermeasures, including BitLocker, Integrity Levels, User Account Control, the updated Windows Firewall, Group Policy, Vista Service Refactoring/Hardening, SafeSEH, GS, DEP, Patchguard, and Address Space Layout Randomization

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Authors: Eric Peterson.
Paperback, 430 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Publication Date: 2005-08-19


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    In order to establish and then maintain a successful presence on the Web, designing a creative site is only half the battle. What good is an intricate Web infrastructure if you're unable to measure its effectiveness? That's why every business is desperate for feedback on their site's visitors: Who are they? Why do they visit? What information or service is most valuable to them?

Unfortunately, most common Web analytics software applications are long on functionality and short on documentation. Without clear guidance on how these applications should be integrated into the greater Web strategy, these often expensive investments go underused and underappreciated.

Enter "Web Site Measurement Hacks," a guidebook that helps you understand your Web site visitors and how they contribute to your business's success. It helps organizations and individual operators alike make the most of their Web investment by providing tools, techniques, and strategies for measuring--and then improving--their site's usability, performance, and design. Among the many topics covered, you'll learn:

definitions of commonly used terms, such as "key performance indicators" (KPIs)

how to drive potential customers to action

how to gather crucial marketing and customer data

which features are useful and which are superfluous

advanced techniques that senior Web site analysts use on a daily basis

By examining how real-world companies use analytics to their success, "Web Site Measurement Hacks" demonstrates how you, too, can accurately measure your Web site's overall effectiveness. Just as importantly, it bridges the gulf between the technical teams charged with maintaining your Web'sinfrastructure and the business teams charged with making management decisions.

It's the technology companion that every site administrator needs....

Authors: Mike Volodarsky. Olga Londer. Brett Hill. Bernard Cheah. Steve Schofield. Carlos Aguilar Mares. Kurt Meyer. Microsoft IIS Team.
Paperback, 779 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Publication Date: 2008-03-05


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    Get the definitive reference for deploying, configuring, and supporting IIS 7.0 with insights from a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and IIS experts at Microsoft. You get 800 pages of in-depth technical guidance on using IIS 7.0 to help enable users to easily host and manage Web sites, create Web-based business applications, and extend file, print, media, and communication services to the Web. This RESOURCE KIT covers IIS architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning, security, top administration and troubleshooting scenarios, and real-world best practices. Complete with scripts, tools, utilities, and an eBook on CD, this is the definitive resource for administering IIS 7.0.

Key Book Benefits:

Delivers detailed technical guidance on IIS 7.0 architecture, migrating servers and applications, capacity planning, security, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting

Describes real-world best practices for IIS 7.0 administration, including scenarios in the dot-com and ISP environments

Features a CD packed with valuable tools and utilities, along with a fully searchable eBook...

Authors: Avitiva Corp. Wynne Leon. Wayne Tynes. Simeon Cathey.
Paperback, 792 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2007-06-12


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    This authoritative, solutions-based resource describes configuring, managing, and troubleshooting any SharePoint installation

Key topics discussed include creating an Office Server portal, content management, SharePoint server and business intelligence, Office Server customization, and solutions scenarios

Expert advice covers how to use SharePoint to create collaborative Web sites that easily integrate with corporate intranets and portals, team and customer collaboration sites, document management systems, and more...

Authors: Steve Schwartz.
Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Publication Date: 2005-12-31


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Imagine never having to delete or file an old email--and still being able to find just the missive you need--and you begin to understand the incredible power of Google's new (free!) email service! With Google's legendary search engine as its backbone and offering an unheard of 1 gigabyte of storage space, Google's brand-new Gmail service promises to revolutionize the way we use email.

In this visual, task-based reference, author Steve Schwartz shows you exactly what you need to know to get your Gmail up and running fast--from determining system requirements to signing up for an account, configuring your system, sending and receiving email, fighting spam, managing email, using Gmail's labeling and filtering systems, and more. Simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and a plethora of time-saving tips will have you up and running with Google's Gmail in no time.

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Authors: Andrew Goodman.
Paperback, 376 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Publication Date: 2005-07-22
Edition: 1

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    Don’t get lost in the digital haystack! With thousands of links for every search, the chances of your products being found online are slimmer than a needle. But there’s good news: you can pinpoint your marketing message with help from Winning Results with Google AdWords. You'll discover AdWord essentials, how to bid for and win the keywords you want, how to track your results, and much more. Create a profitable ad campaign using online marketing, paid search, targeting, and leveraged branding....

Authors: Joe Kraynak.
Paperback, 231 pages
Publisher: Visual
Publication Date: 2004-12-03
Edition: 1

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• Packed with step-by-step techniques to help boost search efficiency and save time
• Easy-to-follow two-page tutorials demonstrate how to maximize Google search options, exploit the power of Google reference tools, accessorize a Web browser with Google, explore Froogle, and more
• Google is the world's leading search engine, with more than 4 billion Web pages indexed and more than 200 million queries a day

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Authors: Matthew MacDonald.
Paperback, 662 pages
Publisher: Pogue Press
Publication Date: 2009-01-07
Edition: 2

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    Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. If you want to create an engaging web site, this thoroughly revised, completely updated edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence.

Whether you want to build a personal web site, an e-commerce site, a blog, or a web site for a specific occasion or promotion, this book gives you detailed instructions and clear-headed advice for:

• Everything from planning to launching. From picking and buying a domain name, choosing a Web hosting firm, building your site, and uploading the files to a web server, this book teaches you the nitty-gritty of creating your home on the Web.



• Ready-to-use building blocks. Creating your own web site doesn't mean you have to build everything from scratch. You'll learn how to incorporate loads of pre-built and freely available tools like interactive menus, PayPal shopping carts, Google ads, and Google Analytics.



• The modern Web. Today's best looking sites use powerful tools like Cascading Style Sheets (for sophisticated page layout), JavaScript (for rollover buttons and cascading menus), and video. This book doesn't treat these topics as fancy frills. From step one, you'll learn easy ways to create a powerful site with these tools.



• Blogs. Learn the basics behind the Web's most popular form of self-expression. And take a step-by-step tour through Blogger, the Google-run blogging service that will have you blogging before you close this book.

This isn't just another dry, uninspired book on how to create a web site. Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual is a witty and intelligent guide you need to make your ideas and vision a web reality....

Authors: Peter Armstrong.
Paperback, 592 pages
Publisher: Manning Publications
Publication Date: 2008-01-23


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    Flexible Rails is a unique, application-based guide for using Ruby on Rails 2 and Adobe Flex 3 to build rich Internet applications (RIAs). It is not an exhaustive Ruby on Rails or Flex reference. Instead, it is an extensive tutorial in which the reader builds multiple iterations of an interesting RIA using Flex and Rails together.

Author Peter Armstrong walks readers through eleven iterations in which the sample application--pomodo--is variously built, refactored, debugged, sliced, diced and otherwise explored from every conceivable angle with respect to Ruby on Rails and Adobe Flex. The book unfolds both the application and the Flex-on-Rails approach side-by-side....

Authors: George Shepherd. Scot Wingo.
Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 1996-05-26
Edition: Pap/Dis

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    "This book is definitely not a rehash of existing documents. It is not a 'how-to' book--it is a 'how does it work' book." --Dean McCrory, MFC Development Lead Finally, a book on MFC that fills the gap between "Using the Wizards" Visual C books, product documentation and MFC source code. MFC Internals is a guide to what goes on inside the Microsoft Foundation Classes, giving you unique and in-depth information on undocumented MFC classes, utility functions and data members, useful coding techniques, and critical analysis of the way various MFC classes work and how they all fit together. The first half of the book covers core Windows graphical user interface classses and their supporting classes; the second half covers subjects like OLE that are extensions to the basic Windows support. You'll become an expert at understanding MFC implementation details by: *exploring under the hood of MFC's document/view architecture to learn about view synchronization, printing and even print preview *diving deep into undocumented aspects of MFC serialization and undocumented classes like CPreview, CPreviewDC, CMirrorFile, CDockBar, etc.*finally learning how MFC and OLE work together under the hood, and how OLE controls are implemented *building the skills that help you investigate and understand MFC source code on your own MFC Internals focuses on MFC 4. 0 for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Most key "internal" concepts also apply to previous versions, but where they don't, the authors warn you with a version note. The book's disk contains example code and the MFC FAQ file, and be sure to check out Appendix A, a handy MFC source code field guide. MFC Internals is an essential guide to tapping MFC's rich and robust application framework and applying advanced MFC knowledge in world-class Windows applications. 0201407213B04062001...