Internet Security



Network Security Assessment, 2nd Edition

Network Security Assessment, 2nd Edition

By Chris McNab

Network Security Assessment provides you with the tricks and tools professional security consultants use to identify and assess risks in Internet-based networks-the same penetration testing model they use to secure government, military, and commercia...

[Publish Date: November 2007]

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Inside Cyber Warfare, 1st Edition

Inside Cyber Warfare, 1st Edition

By Jeffrey Carr

Maybe you've heard about cyber warfare in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to...

[Publish Date: December 2009]

Gene Spafford

Gene Spafford is the director of CERIAS, the world's foremost university center for multidisciplinary research and education in areas of information security. He is also a coauthor of two O'Reilly Media, Inc. titles, Practical Unix and Internet Security...

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Personal responsibility for Internet safety: What O'Reilly is doing - ...

By Andy Oram

O'Reilly is soon to release its first graphic novel, Hackerteen\, a book teaching young people basic Internet technology and a deeper understanding of where and why Internet use can be risky. If people start out indifferent about security, or unconfident that they can do something about it, fear can actually decrease protective actions. Moreover, education can fall on deaf ears if the learners don't acknowledge personal responsibility for security. But if Hackerteen stimulates learning, it will stimulate self-efficacy, and the novel's strong message about personal responsibility can also take hold.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2008]

Subra Kumaraswamy

Subra Kumaraswamy has more than 18 years of engineering and management experience in information security, Internet, and e-commerce technologies.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Alistair Croll

Alistair Croll is an analyst at research firm Bitcurrent, where he covers emerging web technologies, networking, and online applications. He also writes for a variety of blogs and is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance, security, ...

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Dan Tynan

Dan Tynan has written about Internet privacy and security for a decade.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Peter Kelly

Peter Kelly works on his own as a Systems Consultant in Toronto, Canada specializing in Internet and network security.

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Swayam Prakasha

Swayam Prakasha has been working in information technology for several years, concentrating on areas such as operating systems, networking, network security, electronic commerce, Internet services, LDAP, and Web servers. Swayam has authored a number ...

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Speaker: Edward Finkler: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, ...

Ed Finkler has been a web developer for 13 years, the last 6 of those as the Web and Security Archive Administrator of CERIAS at Purdue University. In recent years his interests have turned to web application security, especially with open source technology. He is is a member of the PHP Security Consortium and creator of the PHPSecInfo auditing tool for PHP environments. Ed has also worked in Rich Internet Application development, and his Twitter client Spaz was awarded "Best HTML Community App" in the Adobe AIR Developer Derby. Finkler also studies interface design and usability.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Daniel J. Barrett

Daniel J. Barrett has been immersed in Internet technology since 1985. Currently, he is working as a software engineer. He is the author of O'Reilly's Linux Pocket Guide, and the coauthor of two more O'Reilly books: Linux Security Cookbook, and SSH, ...

[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]

Simple Server Backends for Flex Database Applications - InsideRIA

By Jan Poehland

Developing Rich Internet Applications that access databases always require a complex infrastructure in the background. The same applies to Flex. Really? What if data can be sent to the server in form of SQL queries without compromising security? This would...

[Publish Date: April 17, 2009]