Financial services companies in the United States are a major industry group, providing five to six million full-time jobs. Banks, insurance companies, and securities firms offer good to excellent employment prospects in many job classifications, including many opportunities in the emerging new economy—the online world of Internet banking, brokerage and e-commerce financial services. Employme…
Albert Gelpi’s American Poetry after Modernism is a study of major poets of the postwar period from Robert Lowell and Adrienne Rich through the Language poets. He argues that what distinguishes American poetry from the British tradition is, paradoxically, the lack of a tradition; as a result, each poet has to ask fundamental questions about the role of the poet and the nature of the medium, h…
One of the most difficult tribulations in the entire realm of computing is security. Computers are tools, and just like any tool, they are designed to be used. Unfortunately, not every usage is proper, and not every computer should be accessed by just anyone. A computer really has no way to classify proper usage against improper usage, or differentiate between a valid user and an unauthorized u…
When asking about Information Security (InfoSec), most people immediately think about stolen credit cards, defaced web sites, and teenage hackers with names like B@D@pple. An InfoSec professional might extend the list to items like firewalls, Vir- tual Private Networks (VPN)s, penetration testing, and risk analysis. What is almost never listed is router security—network security, yes, but nev…
We have sometimes joked that there is no good reason to collect new data, given the wealth of existing data sets that can be used to answer important research questions. These existing resources are often longitudinal and usually have sample sizes that are larger than most samples typically found in psychological research. Unfortunately, our enthusiasm for the analysis of secondary data sets su…
AT RECX we’ve been involved in the world of IT Security for more than a decade. We were involved in some of the fi rst penetration tests performed in the UK, where large organizations and government departments allowed ethical hackers into their networks to determine the risk they faced from what are now known as cyber attacks. As web applications rose in popularity around the turn of the ce…
Way back in 1999, the first edition of Hacking Exposed introduced many people to the ease with which computer networks and systems are broken into. Although there are still many today who are not enlightened to this reality, large numbers are beginning to understand the necessity for firewalls, secure operating system configuration, vendor patch maintenance, and many other previously arcane fun…
Web 2.0 is an industry buzz word that gets thrown around quite often. The term is often used for new web technology or comparison between products/services that extend from the initial web era to the existing one. For the purposes of this book, Web 2.0 www.it-ebooks.info xx Hacking Exposed Web 2.0 addresses the new web technologies that are used to bring more interactivity to web applicati…
GNU-Linux is the ultimate hacker’s playground. It’s a toy for the imagination, not unlike a box of blocks or a bag of clay. Whether someone is an artist or a scientist, the possibilities are endless. Anything that you want to try to do and build and make with a computer is subject only to your creativity. This is why so many people are interested in Linux. Many call it Linux instead of GNU-…
Harmonic analysis is one of the most active and fastest growing parts of both pure and applied mathematics. It has gone far beyond its primary goal, which was to study the representation of functions or signals as superpositions of trigonometric functions (Fourier series). The interest in harmonic analysis has always been great because of the wealth of its applications, and it plays nowadays a …
This chapter gets you through the first hurdles you will strike in your quest to have a Graphical Network Simulator (GNS3) running on your computer, and it comes in three parts: pre-installation tasks and prerequisites, the installation process, and the post installation tasks required to build your first simulation. During the process, you will gain an appreciation of the other applications an…
America’s economic development is a top public policy priority. A lack of federal consensus on an overall economic development strategy in Washington, DC has been filled in by regions and states across the nation. Successful local and state economic development strategies center around basic or building block strategies and more advanced five drivers strategies centering on specific industry …
In this book, we'll build several projects that will get progressively more challenging. You should be able to build the first few projects in an afternoon. A finished product may take you a while longer, depending on how professional you want it to look. In order to build the first few projects in this book, you will need a few basic assembly skills and tools described as follows. The RF proje…
n times of crisis, we are forcefully reminded of the links between politics and international economic law.1 Indeed, the meltdown in world markets has refocused attention on how the fingerprints of the “visible hand” can be seen all over the institutions that underpin the rules of globalization. From trade and investment to finance, governments are under pressure to enforce, resist, and rew…
Software that drives the operations of sensors and communication among sensors is basic to any meaningful application of sensor networks. The goal of this book is to provide an understanding of how this software functions; how it allows the sensors to gather information, process it, and interact with each other in networks; and how these networks interact with the physical world. One aim of thi…
FreeRADIUS Beginner's Guide contains plenty of practical exercises that will help you with everything from basic installation to the more advanced configurations like LDAP and Active Directory integration. This book will help you understand authentication, authorization, and accounting in FreeRADIUS using the most popular Linux distributions of today. Larger deployments with realms and fail-ove…
Why Mac at Work? Because everyone needs an advantage. A few years ago, I spoke at the American Bar Association’s technology conference about how I use my Mac to run circles around other lawyers. This conference happens once a year and is ground zero for cutting-edge legal technology. When I started talking to these Mac lawyers, however, their ugly secret was revealed: although they were usi…
Android is an operating system composed of two distinct components. The first component is a forked mainline Linux kernel and shares almost everything in common with Linux. The second component, which will be discussed later, is the user space portion, which is very custom and Android specific. Since the Linux kernel underpins this system and is responsible for the majority of access control de…
To secure an Oracle database, you must modify your mindset to think about securing the data and not about securing the software. To secure the software is literally impossible, because the software is almost infinitely configurable and the software does not know anything about your system (apart from what you www.it-ebooks.info CHAPTER 15 ■ SECURING DATA 532 tell it), your applicatio…
Traditional tidal power plants (TPP-tidal barrages) result in a complete separation of a sea from a gulf in order to create one or several power producing reservoirs [1]. Such systems have a number of fundamental flaws, which hamper the development of this energy industry.