Product Description: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) has been responsible for some of the most significant technological achievements of the past few decades. Much of the hardware and software driving the information revolution has been, and continues to be, created at LCS...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Building Cocoa Applications is an ideal book for serious developers who want to write programs for the Mac OS X using Cocoa. It's a no-nonsense, hands-on text that's filled with examples -- not only simple and self-contained examples of individual Cocoa features, but extended examples of complete applications with enough sophistication and complexity that readers can put them to immediate use in their own environments...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: As the 21st century begins, advances in technology endanger our privacy in ways never before imagined. Marketers track our every purchase; surveillance cameras observe our movements; misused medical records turn our bodies and our histories against us...read more

Product Description: PGP is a free and widely available encryption program that lets you protect files and electronic mail. Written by Phil Zimmermann and released in 1991, PGP works on virtually every platform and has become very popular both in the U...read more

Product Description: When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume...read more

Product Description: When Practical Unix Security was first published more than a decade ago, it became an instant classic. Crammed with information about host security, it saved many a Unix system administrator from disaster. The second edition added much-needed Internet security coverage and doubled the size of the original volume...read more

Product Description: Practical UNIX Security tells system administrators how to make their UNIX system -- either System V or BSD -- as secure as it possibly can be without going to trusted system technology. The book describes UNIX concepts and how they enforce security, tells how to defend against and handle security breaches, and explains network security (including UUCP, NFS, Kerberos, and firewall machines) in detail...read more

A landmark compilation of essays by security experts addresses the impact on today's common security problems of human-computer interaction, discussing the link between issues of software usability and network security problems, future cyber-security, the challenges confronting designers of security and privacy software, potential solutions, and more. Original. (Intermediate-Advanced)

Offers practical advice on how to get rid of electronic 'spam,' including junk messages, unsolicited ads, and inappropriate news articles, and explains how and why they are being sent (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the tradition of 12-step programs that help people overcome their addictions by sharing stories, The UNIX-Haters Handbook is the self-help guide for people affected by the world's most esoteric and most widely used operating system...read more

A study of the growing issue of Web security examines the latest in Internet techologies and the growing risks, as well as the best available strategies for minimizing the dangers, discussing CGI/API programming, cryptography, SSL, digital IDs, electronic commerce, and legal issues. Original. (Intermediate).

Product Description: Since the first edition of Web Security, Privacy, & Commerce, web use has exploded, and so have the threats to our security and privacy--from credit card fraud to marketing spam to web site defacements to attacks that shut down popular web sites...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)