Includes bibliographical references and index.

Computer security touches every part of our daily lives from our computers and connected devices to the wireless signals around us. Breaches have real and immediate financial, privacy, and safety consequences. This handbook has compiled advice from top professionals working in the real world about how to minimize the possibility of computer security breaches in your systems. Written for professionals and college students, it provides comprehensive best guidance about how to minimize hacking, fraud, human error, the effects of natural disasters, and more. This essential and highly–regarded reference maintains timeless lessons and is fully revised and updated with current information on security issues for social networks, cloud computing, virtualization, and more.

COMPUTER SECURITY HANDBOOK (Volume 1); CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; A NOTE TO THE INSTRUCTOR; INTRODUCTION TO PART I: FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SECURITY; CHAPTER 1 BRIEF HISTORY AND MISSION OF INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY; 1.1 INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY; 1.2 EVOLUTION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS; 1.2.1 1950s: Punched-Card Systems; 1.2.2 Large-Scale Computers; 1.2.3 Medium-Size Computers; 1.2.4 1960s: Small-Scale Computers; 1.2.5 Transistors and Core Memory; 1.2.6 Time Sharing; 1.2.7 Real-Time, Online Systems. 1.2.8 A Family of Computers1.2.9 1970s: Microprocessors; 1.2.10 The First Personal Computers; 1.2.11 The First Network; 1.2.12 Further Security Considerations; 1.2.13 The First "Worm"; 1.2.14 1980s: Productivity Enhancements; 1.2.15 1980s: The Personal Computer; 1.2.16 Local Area Networks; 1.2.17 1990s: Interconnection; 1.2.18 1990s: Total Interconnection; 1.2.19 Telecommuting; 1.2.20 Internet and the World Wide Web; 1.2.21 Virtualization and the Cloud; 1.2.22 Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition; 1.3 GOVERNMENT RECOGNITION OF INFORMATION ASSURANCE; 1.3.1 IA Standards. 1.3.2 Computers at Risk1.3.3 InfraGard; 1.4 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS; 1.5 ONGOING MISSION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM SECURITY; 1.6 NOTES; CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF COMPUTER CRIME; 2.1 WHY STUDY HISTORICAL RECORDS?; 2.2 OVERVIEW; 2.3 1960S AND 1970S: SABOTAGE; 2.3.1 Direct Damage to Computer Centers; 2.3.2 1970-1972: Albert the Saboteur; 2.4 IMPERSONATION; 2.4.1 1970: Jerry Neal Schneider; 2.4.2 1980-2003: Kevin Mitnick; 2.4.3 Credit Card Fraud; 2.4.4 Identity Theft Rises; 2.5 PHONE PHREAKING; 2.5.1 2600 Hz; 2.5.2 1982-1991: Kevin Poulsen; 2.6 DATA DIDDLING; 2.6.1 Equity Funding Fraud (1964-1973). 2.6.2 1994: Vladimir Levin and the Citibank Heist2.7 SALAMI FRAUD; 2.8 LOGIC BOMBS; 2.9 EXTORTION; 2.10 TROJAN HORSES; 2.10.1 1988 Flu-Shot Hoax; 2.10.2 Scrambler, 12-Tricks, and PC Cyborg; 2.10.3 1994: Datacomp Hardware Trojan; 2.10.4 Keylogger Trojans; 2.10.5 Haephrati Trojan; 2.10.6 Hardware Trojans and Information Warfare; 2.11 NOTORIOUS WORMS AND VIRUSES; 2.11.1 1970-1990: Early Malware Outbreaks; 2.11.2 December 1987: Christmas Tree Worm; 2.11.3 November 2, 1988: Morris Worm; 2.11.4 Malware in the 1990s; 2.11.5 March 1999: Melissa; 2.11.6 May 2000: I Love You; 2.11.7 July 2010 Stuxnet. 2.12 SPAM 22.12.1 1994: Green Card Lottery Spam; 2.12.2 Spam Goes Global; 2.13 DENIAL OF SERVICE; 2.13.1 1996: Unamailer; 2.13.2 2000: MafiaBoy; 2.14 HACKER UNDERGROUND; 2.14.1 1981: Chaos Computer Club; 2.14.2 1982: The 414s; 2.14.3 1984: Cult of the Dead Cow; 2.14.4 1984: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly; 2.14.5 1984: Legion of Doom; 2.14.6 1985: Phrack; 2.14.7 1989: Masters of Deception; 2.14.8 1990: Operation Sundevil; 2.14.9 1990: Steve Jackson Games; 2.14.10 1992: L0pht Heavy Industries; 2.14.11 2004: Shadowcrew; 2.14.12 Late 2000s: Russian Business Network (RBN); 2.14.13 Anonymous.

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