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You'll find checklists of preventive security measures you can take right now-and lists of tools that can help. Above all, you'll find insight into the all-too-human security flaws that make corporate intranets an easy target for hackers.\" Linda McCarthy's book not only blends statistics with real life stories to good effect, but discusses and documents crucial items such as the importance of a security policy, the impact of organizational politics, and actual transcripts of break-ins. Read the book-it will help you understand security in the real world. And when all is said and done, that's saying a lot, isn't it?\" --Dan Farmer, Security Researcher \"In addition to accurate and scary war stories, this book is chock-full of practical advice that anyone can benefit from.\" --Marcus J. 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Learn how to         Kill viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware  Give Spam the curb and smash web bugs  Understand just how public your private blogs are  Keep wireless freeloaders off your network  Safeguard your parents' credit card and financial data  Understand what tools you need and how to tweak them         Linda McCarthy is a Security Architect in the office of the CTO at Symantec. Linda has been in the security field for over a decade, and has broken into systems around the world to show executives how easy it is to break into their networks. Linda has published seven books on computer security, and is the author of IT Security: Risking the Corporation. Linda also received the Woman of Influence Award in 2004 for computer security, a prestigious award given annually to only four women in the world.          A portion of the proceeds from this book have been designated by the author for nonprofit work to educate teens about Internet security.         Acknowledgments     About the Author    Preface    Chapter 1:     Know Your Villains    Chapter 2:     Drive-By Malicious Code    Chapter 3:     Data Grabbers and Dumpers    Chapter 4:     Spy vs. Spy    Chapter 5:     Giving Spam the Curb     Chapter 6:     Pretenders and Pirates    Chapter 7: Phishing for Dollars    Chapter 8: Taming the Cookie Monster    Chapter 9: Safe Cyber-Shopping    Chapter 10: Private Blogs and Public Places    Chapter 11: Any Port in a Storm    Chapter 12: Look Pa, No Strings!    Chapter 13: Protective Tools     Chapter 14: Tweaks    Appendix A: A Check List for Mom and Dad    Index","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49798848839953,"sku":"CIN0321426428G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0321426428.jpg?v=1751291020"},{"product_id":"it-security-book-linda-mccarthy-9780131011120","title":"IT Security","description":"Security is more about people and policies than about techie details. Linda McCarthy's IT Security: Crimes and Misdemeanors gives you more than the title promises. It is not only a collection of enlightening case studies based on real security audits, but the author also gives a brief and to-the-point analysis of the real risks in the way systems are installed, configured, supported and managed. The book deliberately does not go into technical details, so anyone who is interested in network security will find it easy to read. Discusses and documents the importance of a security policy, the impact of organizational politics, and includes actual transcripts of break-ins and checklists of preventive security measures. It won't come as news to IT pros that cybercrime is soaring. But a new slate of stats reveals just how bad the situation really is. 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