Security eBooks

This eBook introduces the problems facing Internet of Things developers and explores current technologies and techniques to help you manage, mine, and make sense of the data being collected through the use of the world’s most popular database on the Internet - MySQL. The IoT is poised to change how we interact with and perceive the world around us, and the possibilities are nearly boundless. As more and more connected devices generate data, we will need to solve the problem of how to collect, store, and make sense of IoT data by leveraging the power of database systems.

A practical, indispensable security guide that will navigate you through the complex realm of securely building and deploying systems in our IoT-connected world. Book DescriptionWith the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), businesses have to defend against new types of threat. The business ecosystem now includes the cloud computing infrastructure, mobile and fixed endpoints that open up new attack surfaces. It therefore becomes critical to ensure that cybersecurity threats are contained to a minimum when implementing new IoT services and solutions.

Metasploit is the world's leading penetration testing tool and helps security and IT professionals find, exploit, and validate vulnerabilities. Metasploit allows penetration testing automation, password auditing, web application scanning, social engineering, post exploitation, evidence collection, and reporting. Metasploit's integration with InsightVM (or Nexpose), Nessus, OpenVas, and other vulnerability scanners provides a validation solution that simplifies vulnerability prioritization and remediation reporting. Teams can collaborate in Metasploit and present their findings in consolidated reports.

Written by a former NYPD cyber cop, this is the only book available that discusses the hard questions cyber crime investigators are asking. The book begins with the chapter “What is Cyber Crime? This introductory chapter describes the most common challenges faced by cyber investigators today. The following chapters discuss the methodologies behind cyber investigations; and frequently encountered pitfalls.

Learning the latest methodologies, tools, and techniques is critical for IoT design, whether you’re involved in environmental monitoring, building automation, industrial equipment, remote health monitoring devices, or an array of other IoT applications. The O’Reilly Design Library provides experienced designers with the knowledge and guidance you need to build your skillset and stay current with the latest trends.

In one way or other we all are connected with internet. All web applications are dependent on the internet. Now a day's web applications play a vital role in everybody's life. In last 10 years we have observed the exponential growth in user friendly web applications. Thousands of transactions are done daily through these applications, 80% out of which are vulnerable to malicious attacks according to the survey by the Open Web Application Security Projects (OWSAP) .

Where to begin? Start with the fundamental assertion that we are at war, a cyber war. The topic is expansive and seems to become more inclusive every day as the word “cyber” enters almost every aspect of our lives. “Cyber” is becoming so familiar to us now that we passively accept anything associated with it. We don’t always appreciate that, but it is true, and it becomes truer with every new day and Internet-enabled device. We don’t see all of these devices, either. From laptops and smartphones and tablets to automobiles to refrigerators, cockpits, and smart homes, we are connected.

The increasing societal dependence on information technology has pushed cyber-security to the forefront as one of the most urgent challenges facing the global community. Cyber-Security and Global Information Assurance: Threat Analysis and Response Solutions provides a valuable resource for academicians and practitioners by addressing the most pressing issues facing cyber-security from both a national and global perspective.

Insider Attack and Cyber Security: Beyond the Hacker defines the nature and scope of the insider attack problem as viewed by the financial industry. This edited volume is based on the first workshop on Insider Attack and Cyber Security, IACS 2007. The workshop was a joint effort from the Computer Science Departments of Columbia University and Dartmouth College. This eBook sets an agenda for an ongoing research initiative to solve one of the most vexing problems encountered in computer security.

Session Outline: What is Google Hacking? How to do it How to use/automate it without violating Google’s TOS SQL Injection, search for inurl: “page” or “id” (i.e., knowledge bases, blog software, bug tracking software) or forms on a page very manual process, but with metadata knowledge of DBs, very effective validate/scrub input, only allow needed characters (i.e., cast page or id as int in code before using in SQL query) use prepared statements when possible.

This book argues that computer security has evolved from a technical discipline to a strategic concept. The world’s growing dependence on a powerful but vulnerable Internet – combined with the disruptive capabilities of cyber attackers – now threatens national and international security. Strategic challenges require strategic solutions. The author examines four nationstate approaches to cyber attack mitigation.

This eBook focuses on the vulnerabilities of state and local services to cyber-threats and suggests possible protective action that might be taken against such threats. Cyber-threats to U.S. critical infrastructure are of growing concern to policymakers, managers and consumers. Information and communications technology (ICT) is ubiquitous and many ICT devices and other components are interdependent; therefore, disruption of one component may have a negative, cascading effect on others.

Phishing is an online identity theft that aims to steal sensitive information such as username, password and online banking details from its victims. Phishing education needs to be considered as a means to combat this threat. This book focuses on a design and development of a mobile game prototype as an educational tool helping computer users to protect themselves against phishing attacks. The elements of a game design framework for avoiding phishing attacks were used to address the game design issues.

Contains examples of the cyber-security issues facing local governmental units worldwide and examples of effective techniques that can be used to deal with these problems. Written and edited by leading experts in the fields of critical infrastructure security and cyber-security in relation to state and local government. Assesses the role of public/private partnerships in securing facilities and services against cyber-threats and discusses methods that local governments can use to encourage them.

There is increasing pressure to protect computer networks against unauthorized intrusion, and some work in this area is concerned with engineering systems that are robust to attack. However, no system can be made invulnerable. Data Analysis for Network Cyber-Security focuses on monitoring and analyzing network traffic data, with the intention of preventing, or quickly identifying, malicious activity.Such work involves the intersection of statistics, data mining and computer science.

The sophisticated methods used in recent high-profile cyber incidents have driven many to need to understand how such security issues work. Demystifying the complexity often associated with information assurance, Cyber Security Essentials provides a clear understanding of the concepts behind prevalent threats, tactics, and procedures. To accomplish this, the team of security professionals from VeriSign’s iDefense  Security Intelligence Services supply an extensive review of the computer security landscape.

The book, in addition to the cyber threats and technology, processes cyber security from many sides as a social phenomenon and how the implementation of the cyber security strategy is carried out. The book gives a profound idea of the most spoken phenomenon of this time. The book is suitable for a wide-ranging audience from graduate to professionals/practitioners and researchers. Relevant disciplines for the book are Telecommunications / Network security, Applied mathematics / Data analysis, Mobile systems / Security, Engineering / Security of critical infrastructure and Military science / Security.