Online Get-Rich-Quick Scams

Everyone knows there is no easy way to wealth except, perhaps, to inherit it. And yet, many still keep seeking an easy path to riches. And it is these people for whom the charlatins, fraudsters, and scammers, are ready and waiting. They have their “Secrets To Massive Wealth” or “Instand Success Revealed” packages ready for […]

Firewalls for Dummies

Firewalls for Dummies, Second Edition. With more and more small-office and home computers being left connected to the Internet at all times, the owners of those machines are being faced with problems that used to confront only big operations. The authors of Firewalls for Dummies spread the message: everyone with a cable modem, data satellite […]

What Is Anti-Virus Software

Anti-virus software (computer programs) attempts to identify, neutralize or eliminate malicious software of various types. The term "anti-virus" is used because the earliest examples were designed exclusively to combat computer viruses; however most modern antivirus software is now designed to combat a wide range of threats, including worms, phishing attacks, rootkits, trojan horses and other […]

What Is Computer Security?

Computer security is a segment of technology that deals with keeping computers, their software, and the information (data) they process, safe from harm or theft. Four procedures or mechanisms that typically comprise the security process are: Physically limit access to computers to only those who will not compromise security. Hardware mechanisms that impose rules on […]

How to Be Invisible

How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition) From cyberspace to crawl spaces, new innovations in information gathering have left the private life of the average person open to scrutiny, and worse, exploitation. In this thoroughly revised update of his immensely popular guide How […]

Security in Computing

Security in Computing, 4th Edition. For years, IT and security professionals and students have turned to Security in Computing as the definitive guide to information about computer security attacks and countermeasures. In their new fourth edition, Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger have thoroughly updated their classic guide to reflect today’s newest technologies, standards, […]