Relevant links
A list of links, which will hopefully grow during the course. (Please send me more interesting links, or add them yourself (see below)!)
- Highlights of Symantec's security threat report
- Slashdot security topics - "News for Nerds, stuff that matters"
- Article on security awareness and implementation - read discussion too.
- Article on security awareness and implementation
- Security Myths and Passwords - an article by Eugene Spafford.
- The poor passwords at the social democratic party used by the liberal party (in Swedish, but try a translator service?)
- SecurityFocus - lots of information on security (news, vulnerabilities, tools...)
- Computer Security is Not a Science
(but should be) - an argumentative paper about the state of computer security as a science. - The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
- The Risks Digest - Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
- SANS Security Policy Project - How a policy should govern the security work. What to expect from a policy and what can be implemented. Examples of policies.
- What is digital timestamping? - see also http://www.digistamp.com.
- http://multicians.org - about the Multics operating system
- Linux PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux (also available for Solaris), see also Hardening Linux authentication and user identity.
- The SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
- 29A Labs - Low level programming/networking computer virus techniques and I+D electronic magazine
- to be filled in...
- Links from Johannes Gumbel
- Do's and don'ts of Client Authentication - A nice whitepaper from some people at MIT.
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