Security & Encryption

How to make it, break it, hack it, crack it. The secret history of codes and code breaking. Simon Singh’s best-selling title The Code Book now reissued for the young-adult market.  The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography. Simon Singh brings life to an amazing story ... More

There are many ways that a potential attacker can intercept information, or learn more about the sender, as the information travels over a network. Silence on the Wire uncovers these silent attacks so that system administrators can defend against them, as well as better understand and monitor their ... More

This official Microsoft study guide is an all-in-one exam preparatory practice and review for the exam 70-298. It explains how to create security design for Network infrastructure, Network management and maintenance, Basic network functions and Wireless networks and Web servers. ... More

In Programming .NET Security, experienced developers Adam Freeman and Allen Jones not only provide not only a comprehensive overview of .NET security facilities and APIs, but also explain key concepts and common design patterns that developers must understand to build applications that can survive i... More

Open source technologies are providing developers with a range of more cost-effective, robust alternatives to commercial software for building dynamic, data-driven, secure Web applications. This practical guide presents a broad survey of LAMP technologies, and shows how these solutions can be implem... More

Single-sign-on is the holy grail of network administration, and Kerberos is the only game in town. Microsoft, by integrating Kerberos into Active Directory in Windows 2000 and 2003, has extended the reach of Kerberos to all networks, large and small. Kerberos makes your network more secure and conve... More

A quarter million Unix system administrators and users have found earlier editions of this classic reference indispensable in protecting their systems from both external and internal attacks. This new edition is a comprehensive update, providing much-needed coverage of today's host security and netw... More

Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should ... More

Password sniffing, spoofing, buffer overflows, and denial of service: these are only a few of the attacks on today's computer systems and networks. Almost every network security problem actually results from security problems in the underlying software. Writing robust software is difficult—making ... More