Digital Assassination: Protecting Your Reputation, Brand, or Business Against Online Attacks
Two leading reputation experts reveal how the internet is being used to destroy brands, reputations and even lives, and how to fight back. From false Wikipedia entries, to fake YouTube videos, to Facebook lynch mobs, everyone from CEOs to fashion models, journalists to politicians, restaurateurs to doctors, is open to character assassination in the burgeoning realm of digital media. [...]
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools: Using Open Source Platform Tools for Performing Computer Forensics on Target Systems: Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix, etc
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools is the definitive book on investigating and analyzing computer systems and media using open source tools. The book is a technical procedural guide, and explains the use of these tools on Linux and Windows systems as a platform for performing computer forensics. Both well known and novel forensic methods [...]
Government Security Gurus: All Our Networks Are Belong To Them – All Things Digital
Think US military computer networks are secure? Think again. A panel of computer security experts from across the US government told a US Senate committee yesterday that computer networks operated by the US Department of Defense are so … “computer security” – Bing News
Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government–Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
If you’ve ever made a secure purchase with your credit card over the Internet, then you have seen cryptography, or “crypto”, in action. From Stephen Levy—the author who made “hackers” a household word—comes this account of a revolution that is already affecting every citizen in the twenty-first century. Crypto tells the inside story of how [...]
Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World
Bestselling author Bruce Schneier offers his expert guidance on achieving security on a networkInternationally recognized computer security expert Bruce Schneier offers a practical, straightforward guide to achieving security throughout computer networks. Schneier uses his extensive field experience with his own clients to dispel the myths that often mislead IT managers as they try to build [...]
How Scary Was the Internet in 2011? – All Things Digital
How Scary Was the Internet in 2011?All Things DigitalWith 2011 in the books, I thought it would be interesting to revisit some predictions I made last year on the subject of computer security. In “2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to It.” I looked at a string of events on the [...]
In Planning Digital Defenses, the Biggest Obstacle Is Human Ingenuity
But the evolution of is not merely some dark mirror, passively reflecting advances in technology. While technology provides new opportunities for threats, these become true dangers only when there is a motivation to exploit …
Carrier IQ: How to Hack Back Your Phone – All Things Digital
TIME Carrier IQ: How to Hack Back Your PhoneAll Things DigitalThe technology, made by Carrier IQ, is currently deployed on more than 150 million devices worldwide. Research in Motion and HTC — the maker of the phone targeted in the security demo — have issued statements denying that Carrier IQ is pre-installed …AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile [...]
Zinio Raises $20 Million For Digital Newsstand (Robin Wauters/TechCrunch)
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Zinio Raises $20 Million For Digital Newsstand — Zinio, which bills itself as the world’s largest digital newsstand and bookstore, has raised $20 million in new funding according to an SEC filing. — Zinio provides global access to thousands of magazine titles from most major publishers in a variety of languages.
Grading the Digital School: Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley (Matt Richtel/New York Times)
Matt Richtel / New York Times:Grading the Digital School: Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — Three times over the last two years, school officials from Little Falls, Minn., have escaped the winter cold for two-day trips to Silicon Valley. Their destination: the headquarters of Apple.
