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Digital Data Integrity: The Evolution from Passive Protection to Active Management

David B Little, Skip Farmer, Oussama El-Hilali — Fri, 11 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

lt;b>How to plan your future strategy for efficient, cost-saving data management

Businesses have historically treated data protection as an afterthought, as simply making an occasional copy of data that could be used in the future. Today, this attitude is changing rapidly. The ever-increasing ...

Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Updated and Expanded Edition

Whitfield Diffie, Susan Landau — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Telecommunication has never been perfectly secure. The Cold War culture of recording devices in telephone receivers and bugged embassy offices has been succeeded by a post-9/11 world of NSA wiretaps and demands for data retention. Although the 1990s battle for individual and commercial freedom to use cryptography was won, growth ...

Simple Computer Security: Disinfect Your PC

CA — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hands-on guide to the CA Internet Security Suite, which includes Parental Controls (blocks offensive Web sites, controls program use, and monitors Internet activity); Anti-Spyware (sweeps PCs of malicious software like spyware and adware); Anti-Spam (ensures that computer users get messages from people they know, while redirecting messages from people ...

Protect Your Privacy: How to Protect Your Identity as well as Your Financial, Personal, and Computer Records in an Age of Constant Surveillance (Outwitting)

Duncan Long — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

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Identity theft is at an all-time high. Protect Your Privacy gives you everything you need to know about protecting your computer security, financial and telephone privacy, identification, freedom of movement, and more! Learn to safeguard your privacy in virtually every situation—on the internet, telephone, face-toface, even with the government enforcing ...

The War on Privacy

Jacqueline Klosek — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In today's globalized society, the war on terror has negatively affected privacy rights not just in the United States, but everywhere. When privacy rights are curtailed around the world, American efforts to spread freedom and democracy are hindered, and as a consequence, Americans are less secure in the world. Ironically ...

Dynamic differential data protection for high-performance and pervasive applications -- Dissertation

Patrick M., Widener — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

Modern distributed applications are long-lived, are expected to provide flexible and adaptive data services, and must meet the functionality and scalability challenges posed by dynamically changing user communities in heterogeneous execution environments. The practical implications of these requirements are that reconfiguration and upgrades are increasingly necessary, but opportunities to perform ...

Network Security Hacks: Tips & Tools for Protecting Your Privacy

Andrew Lockhart — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

In the fast-moving world of computers, things are always changing. Since the first edition of this strong-selling book appeared two years ago, network security techniques and tools have evolved rapidly to meet new and more sophisticated threats that pop up with alarming regularity. The second edition offers both new and ...

Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy

David H. Holtzman — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

While other books in the field focus on specific aspects of privacy or how to avoid invasions, David H. Holtzman—a master technologist, internet pioneer, security analyst, and former military codebreaker—presents a comprehensive insider's exposé of the world of invasive technology, who's using it, and how our privacy is at risk ...

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Purchase and Watch Your Every Move

Katherine Albrecht, Liz McIntyre — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

As you walk down the street, a tiny microchip implanted in your tennis shoe tracks your every move; chips woven into your clothing transmit the value of your outfit to nearby retailers; and a thief scans the chips hidden inside your money to decide if you're worth robbing. This isn't ...

Information Assurance for the Enterprise: A Roadmap to Information Security (McGraw-Hill Information Assurance & Security)

Corey Schou, Daniel Paul Shoemaker — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

lt;blockquote>Going beyond the technical coverage of computer and systems security measures, Information Assurance for the Enterprise provides readers an overarching model for information assurance for businesses, government agencies, and other enterprises needing to establish a comprehensive plan. All the components of security and how they relate are featured, and ...