Elements of Computer Security
As our society grows ever more reliant on computers, so it also becomes more vulnerable to computer crime. Cyber attacks have been plaguing computer users since the 1980s, and computer security experts are predicting that smart telephones and other mobile
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David Salomon
Elements of Computer Security
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Prof. David Salomon (emeritus) Computer Science Dept. California State University, Northridge Northridge, CA 91330-8281 USA [email protected] Series editor Ian Mackie Advisory board Samson Abramsky, University of Oxford, UK Chris Hankin, Imperial College London, UK Dexter Kozen, Cornell University, USA Andrew Pitts, University of Cambridge, UK Hanne Riis Nielson, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University, USA Iain Stewart, University of Durham, UK David Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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To the many anonymous cybercriminals and hackers, without whom this book would not have been necessary.
Now you have given me a security worth having; and I shall proceed with courage.
—Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1803)
Preface The Security Challenge: A Global Context On 21 November 2008, the conficker worm, one of the worst examples of malware in recent years, was first detected. As these words are bei
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