Security eBooks

If you thought hacking was just about mischief-makers hunched over computers in the basement, think again. As seasoned author Wallace Wang explains, hacking can also mean questioning the status quo, looking for your own truths, and never accepting at face value anything authorities say or do. The completely revised fourth edition of this offbeat, non-technical book examines what hackers do, how they do it, and how you can protect yourself.

Steven is the managing director of a respected software company. After finding pornography downloaded on his network server and a number of individual office computers, he decided to hire a computer forensics investigator to build a case for employee dismissal. The Investigator was hired to locate deleted files if any and verify certain non-work related contents of the hard drives in question. The investigator was able to locate spy software, pornography, illegal file-sharing software from the hard drive of the suspicious employee. This led to employee dismissal.

Every programming language has a well defined vocabulary and a well defined grammar •Each program has to be written following rigid grammatical rules. A programming language and the computer together form our single computing tool. Each program uses only the primitives of the computing tool. Each programming language also has its own vocabulary and grammar just as in the case of natural languages. We will learn the grammar of the language as we go along.

This eBook attempts to provide a unified overview of the broad field of data and computer communications. The organization of the book reflects an attempt to break this massive subject into comprehensible parts and to build, piece by piece, a survey of the state of the art. The eBook emphasizes basic principles and topics of fundamental importance concerning the technology and architecture of this field and provides a detailed discussion of leading-edge topics.

Computer hacking is an extremely powerful skill to have. This book focuses on ethical hacking - also known as white hat hacking. Inside, you will learn the basics of hacking for beginners. This includes the different types of hacking, the reasons behind hacking, jobs in the hacking world, how to do some basic hacks, and the skills a hacker requires. Many hackers are hired by companies to ensure that their computer systems are safe. There is high paying ethical work available in the hacking world, and this book will serve as an introduction to getting you there.

The information covered in this eBook include (but not limited to) are Hardware – physical devices that make up a computer (or computer system) Software – set of instructions that hardware executes to carry out a specific task for you, Storage devices – store information for use at a later time (magnetic, optical, flash), CPU – hardware that interprets and executes software and coordinates all hardware.

So you want to be a harmless hacker? "You mean you can hack without breaking the law?" That was the voice of a high school freshman. He had me on the phone because his father had just taken away his computer. His offense? Cracking into my Internet account. The boy had hoped to impress me with how "kewl" he was. But before I realized he had gotten in, a sysadmin at my ISP had spotted the kid's harmless explorations and had alerted the parents. Now the boy wanted my help in getting back on line.