Archive for July, 2010
In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks (Ashlee Vance/New York Times)
Ashlee Vance / New York Times:In School Systems, Slow Progress for Open-Source Textbooks — INFURIATING Scott G. McNealy has never been easier. Just bring up math textbooks. — Mr. McNealy, the fiery co-founder and former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as bloated monstrosities …
Complete Guide To E-Security: Using The Internet And E-Mail Without Losing Your Privacy
Product DescriptionWant to take advantage of the latest technology without being taken advantage of? In this eye-opening guide, Michael Chesbro (Privacy for Sale) shows how the average American’s personal and business e-mail can be read in more than a dozen places between the time it’s sent and the time it’s received, how marketers and other [...]
Security Threat Mitigation and Response: Understanding Cisco Security MARS
Product DescriptionIdentify, manage, and counter security threats with the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System Dale Tesch Greg Abelar While it is commonly understood that deploying network security devices is critical to the well-being of an organization’s systems and data, all too often companies assume that simply having these devices is enough [...]
PC Magazine Windows Vista Security Solutions
Product DescriptionDan DiNicolo provides a roadmap to protecting Vista against new and unexpected security threats that might arise to hijack your system. Follow these steps, abide by the Golden Rules of Windows security, and you’ll sleep better. See at a glance what’s critical for security: implementing logon security, strong passwords, and firewall configuration. Plus, explore [...]
The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets (Julia Angwin/Wall Street Journal)
Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:The Web’s New Gold Mine: Your Secrets — A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series. By Julia Angwin — Hidden inside Ashley Hayes-Beaty’s computer, a tiny file helps gather personal details …
Hackers Beware: The Ultimate Guide to Network Security
Product DescriptionHackers Beware starts with a roadmap of the various areas of hacking but quickly delves into the details of how specific attacks work and how to protect against them. Since most attacks we hear about either occur or are perceived to come from hackers, people are very interested “in how they do that” – [...]
Blackberry Inventor Sees More Growth Opportunity (Jessica Ramirez /Newsweek)
Jessica Ramirez / Newsweek:Blackberry Inventor Sees More Growth Opportunity — Mike Lazaridis, the man who virtually invented the smart-phone market, insists his company is just getting started. — If you know the name Mike Lazaridis, you’ve probably heard some variation of how he came up with the idea for the Blackberry …
Foundations of Security Analysis and Design: FOSAD 2006/2007 Turtorial Lectures
Product DescriptionThe increasing relevance of security to real-life applications, such as electronic commerce and Internet banking, is attested by the fast-growing number of research groups, events, conferences, and summer schools that address the study of foundations for the analysis and the design of security aspects. This book presents thoroughly revised versions of eight tutorial lectures [...]
Secure Internet Programming: Security Issues for Mobile and Distributed Objects
Product DescriptionLarge-scale open distributed systems provide an infrastructure for assembling global applications on the basis of software and hardware components originating from multiple sources. Open systems rely on publicly available standards to permit heterogeneous components to interact. The Internet is the archetype of a large-scale open distributed system; standards such as HTTP, HTML, and XML, [...]
Kindle to Go ‘Mass Market’ (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Wall Street Journal)
Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal:Kindle to Go ‘Mass Market’ — Amazon Digs in Heels by Introducing New, Cheaper Version of E-Book Reader — Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a cheaper Kindle e-reader next month, said Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, laying out a strategy to go “mass market” with an inexpensive gadget designed …
