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Preface Preface Who Should Read This Book Over the last two decades, several publications appeared on the subject of computer viruses, but only a few have been written by professionals ("insiders") of computer virus research. Although many books exist that discuss the computer virus problem, they usually target a novice audience and are simply not too interesting for the technical professionals. There are only a few works that have no worries going into the technical details, necessary to understand, to effectively defend against computer viruses. Part of the problem is that existing books have little if any information about the current complexity of computer viruses. For example, they lack serious technical information on fast-spreading c... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Uncover the Threats Lurking in the Darkness of Your Family's Computer Many people have no idea of the evils that exist across the Internet or the danger that can result from simply answering an innocent-sounding e-mail or participating in a chat. Your loved ones could unknowingly be putting themselves in grave risk. By using the tools and techniques in this book to check up or spy on them, you can identify the perils, educate your loved ones about impending danger, and avoid potential physical, emotional, or financial disasters. This book was written to help make the Internet safe for families and friends; to raise awareness of the inherent dangers of the Internet; and to help parents keep their children out of trouble.--Dr. Eric Cole * Lea... Rest of this review on the detail page
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In the preface (for teachers), Panko states that this is a text for a security course. The book is said to be based on the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) "exam," although there is a definite lack of material dealing with architecture, physical security, and security management. Chapter one is a list of possible attacks and security problems. There are "Test Your Understanding" questions sprinkled throughout, but they are mostly on the level of fact-based reading checks. (One of the later examples asks "What is shoulder surfing?" immediately under a paragraph on shoulder surfing.) There is also a chapter "1a" with a collection of very terse "case studies" (one is only a sentence in length). Access control ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Resources for details and reliable information on operations of the thousands of MS-DOS viral programs are rare. The virus listing chapter of "Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit" has often been recommended as a resource for such data. It has now been published separately from the program documentation and is available from the company. The general discussion of viral programs is accurate, but fairly terse. There is a quick overview of what a virus is (which contains a very useful list of commons false alarms), as well as definitions of the most common terminology. There is a very short history from 1986 to 1994. Technical details are abundant, particularly in the extended discussion of stealth techniques. The bulk of the book lies ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Join author John Zdziarski for a look inside the brilliant minds that have conceived clever new ways to fight spam in all its nefarious forms. This landmark title describes, in-depth, how statistical filtering is being used by next-generation spam filters to identify and filter unwanted messages, how spam filtering works and how language classification and machine learning combine to produce remarkably accurate spam filters. After reading Ending Spam, you'll have a complete understanding of the mathematical approaches used by today's spam filters as well as decoding, tokenization, various algorithms (including Bayesian analysis and Markovian discrimination) and the benefits of using open-source solutions to end spam. Zdziarski interviewed c... Rest of this review on the detail page
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