IS430 "Information Security" Page
Most resources will be on and communications will be via Blackboard.
Text
(recommended)
Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Security in
Computing, fourth edition, Prentice Hall, 2007, ISBN
0-13-239077-9
Topics by Chapter
- Cryptography (Pfleeger chapter 2)
- Prime numbers: will we run
out?
- Protection in General-Purpose Operating Systems (Pfleeger chapter 4)
- Need a password? Here's
a list. Note
that this is a password dictionary reputedly used by
hackers, and so using one of these passwords would be a
bad idea.
- Network Security ((Pfleeger chapter 7) / Privacy (Pfleeger Chapter 10)
- Martin Kaste has a
non-technical report
on e-mail security for NPR's Morning
Edition. Phil
Zimmermann makes a brief appearance.
- Privacy (Pfleeger Chapter 10)
General Interest
- A list of security-related blogs and
pods.
- See what information your browser
is leaking to web servers.
- Potential attacks against Internet voting
From here one can go
- To Martens'
Course Page
- To Martens' home page
- To the UMBC IS Dept
- To UMBC
, Jeff Martens.