Description
If you think computer security has improved in recent years, Myths of Security will shake you out of your complacency. Longtime security professional John Viega reports on the sorry state of security, with concrete suggestions for professionals and individuals confronting the issue. Provocative, insightful, and often controversial, The Myths of Security addresses IT professionals who deal with security issues, and speaks to Mac and PC users who spend time online.
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1 The Security Industry Is Broken
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Chapter 2 Security: Nobody Cares!
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Chapter 3 It's Easier to Get "0wned" Than You Think
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Chapter 4 It's Good to Be Bad
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Chapter 5 Test of a Good Security Product: Would I Use It?
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Chapter 6 Why Microsoft's Free AV Won't Matter
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Chapter 7 Google Is Evil
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Chapter 8 Why Most AV Doesn't Work (Well)
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Chapter 9 Why AV Is Often Slow
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Chapter 10 Four Minutes to Infection?
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Chapter 11 Personal Firewall Problems
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Chapter 12 Call It "Antivirus"
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Chapter 13 Why Most People Shouldn't Run Intrusion Prevention Systems
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Chapter 14 Problems with Host Intrusion Prevention
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Chapter 15 Plenty of Phish in the Sea
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Chapter 16 The Cult of Schneier
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Chapter 17 Helping Others Stay Safe on the Internet
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Chapter 18 Snake Oil: Legitimate Vendors Sell It, Too
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Chapter 19 Living in Fear?
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Chapter 20 Is Apple Really More Secure?
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Chapter 21 OK, Your Mobile Phone Is Insecure; Should You Care?
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Chapter 22 Do AV Vendors Write Their Own Viruses?
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Chapter 23 One Simple Fix for the AV Industry
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Chapter 24 Open Source Security: A Red Herring
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Chapter 25 Why SiteAdvisor Was Such a Good Idea
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Chapter 26 Is There Anything We Can Do About Identity Theft?
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Chapter 27 Virtualization: Host Security's Silver Bullet?
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Chapter 28 When Will We Get Rid of All the Security Vulnerabilities?
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Chapter 29 Application Security on a Budget
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Chapter 30 "Responsible Disclosure" Isn't Responsible
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Chapter 31 Are Man-in-the-Middle Attacks a Myth?
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Chapter 32 An Attack on PKI
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Chapter 33 HTTPS Sucks; Let's Kill It!
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Chapter 34 CrAP-TCHA and the Usability/Security Tradeoff
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Chapter 35 No Death for the Password
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Chapter 36 Spam Is Dead
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Chapter 37 Improving Authentication
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Chapter 38 Cloud Insecurity?
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Chapter 39 What AV Companies Should Be Doing (AV 2.0)
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Chapter 40 VPNs Usually Decrease Security
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Chapter 41 Usability and Security
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Chapter 42 Privacy
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Chapter 43 Anonymity
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Chapter 44 Improving Patch Management
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Chapter 45 An Open Security Industry
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Chapter 46 Academics
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Chapter 47 Locksmithing
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Chapter 48 Critical Infrastructure
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Appendix Epilogue
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Colophon
Product Details
- Title:
- The Myths of Security
- By:
- John Viega
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media
- Formats:
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- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print Release:
- June 2009
- Ebook Release:
- June 2009
- Pages:
- 264
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-52302-2
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-52302-5
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-80413-8
- | ISBN 10:
- 0-596-80413-X
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