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Goal: To gain an overview of some of the issues in computer security, and to look briefly at the Open Source movement
The quiz is 25 questions (2 points each) and is open book. You have a fixed time limit of 3 hours to complete the exam. You do not have to complete the exam in one sitting. You may save your work and return later.
Stalking a Computer
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Chapter 8 of Steal This Computer Book 4.0; What They Won't Tell You About the Internet; by Wallace Wang; No Starch Press |
| The Zombie Hunters; On The Trail Of Cyberextortionists by Evan Ratliff |
"..problems had begun a week earlier, with a flood of fake data requests—what is known as a distributed denial-of-service attack—from computers around the world. Although few, if any, of those computers’ owners knew it, their machines had been hijacked by hackers; they had become what programmers call “zombies,” and had been set loose.." |
| An Overview of Computer Security |
by Matt Bishop. Sample Chapter from 'Introduction to Computer Security'.
We will not do the exercises
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| Home Network Security |
from CERT Coordination Center (CERT = the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team): |
| What Is Phishing |
(Or, How to Fight Phishing at the User-Interface Level) by Simson Garfinkel, Lorrie Faith Cranor, |
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