Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks

Product DescriptionDisaster management is a dynamic and fluid area, which requires the involvement of expertise from different authorities and organizations. There is a need to prepare and plan in advance actions in response to disaster related events in order to support sustainable livelihood by protecting lives, property and the environment. Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management [...]


Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems

Product Description“Imagine trying to play defense in football without ever studying offense. You would not know when a run was coming, how to defend pass patterns, nor when to blitz. In computer systems, as in football, a defender must be able to think like an attacker. I say it in my class every semester, you [...]


Internet Security Control System: Agent-Based Distributed Control System for Securing Traffic on the Internet

Product DescriptionTo secure Internet transactions from being threatened or attacked, various technologies have been developed. Current technologies still cannot comprehend various threats and attacks. Inspired by this situation, the work described in this book aims to contribute in a better approach in securing Internet transactions. A control system model based on a systems approach for [...]


South Korea Warns Computer Users Against Infection Distributed by Internet – Bloomberg

South Korea warned computer users to take precautions against a new computer virus one day after a series of online attempts … online systems target individual computer users, unlike the attacks against official websites in the previous two days, Lee …


South Korean Websites Hit by Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks – PRLog (free press release)

The compromised systems are than used to attack and infiltrate other computers. Users must install anti-virus and anti-malware programs to protect their computers from virus and malware attacks. E-learning, online degree and training programs may help in …


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, [...]


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Breakthrough Research Speeds and Secures Internet Voice Traffic … – CNBC

NEW YORK, Oct 08, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Cisco is joining with the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications and Distributed Information Systems (CATT) at Polytechnic Institute of New York University to commercialize breakthrough …