Internet Security Made Easy

Thorough, yet practical and plain-spoken, the book is accessible to both novices and computer professionals, and covers every base, including:

• Analyzing and eliminating vulnerabilities and risks
• file-sharing issues
• virus threats
• SPAM
• e-mail security
• Public Key Infrastructure
• digital signatures
• "Pretty Good Privacy"
• hardware and software firewalls

Other key issues include the security risks of different Internet connections, particularly the vulnerability of the new "always-on" broadband technology. Readers also get information on safe Web browsing and "cookie" technology, remote connectivity and wireless Web technology--plus the future of the Internet and online security.

Contents

A Brief History of the Internet

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Technical Essentials for Internet Security
Chapter 2: Connecting to the World Wide Web
Chapter 3: First Steps Toward Internet Security
Chapter 4: Always On, Always Vulnerable
Chapter 5: Secure Your Business
Chapter 6: Making Your Web Server Secure
Chapter 7: Public Key Infrastructure
Chapter 8: Secure Remote Access
Chapter 9: What Do We Do? We've Been Hacked!
Chapter 10: CyberCrime
Chapter 11: The Future of the Internet: IPv6 and WAP

Appendix A. How to Report Internet-Related Crime
Appendix B. Identity Theft: The Crime of the New Millennium
Appendix C. Statement on "Internet Fraud"
Appendix D. Working with Victims of Computer Network Hacks
Appendix E. Internet Denial-of-Service Attacks Statement

Glossary: Hacker Vernacular

Index

About the Author