The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Internet Security Alerts
- RISKS, Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and
Related Systems:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks This is an archive of the comp.risks
USENET group, a moderated group with a high information
to noise ratio.
- CERT advisories:
ftp://ftp.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/.
General Security for Web Servers
- How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide Web Site: The Guide for
Information Providers, by Lincoln D. Stein (Addison-Wesley), 496
pages, list price $29.95, ISBN 0-201-63389-2 (information available at
http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/).
- Managing Internet Information Systems, by Cricket Liu, Jerry Peek, Russ Jones,
Bryan Buus, and Adrian Nye (
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.), ISBN 1-56592-051-1
Firewalls
- Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker,
by William R. Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin (
Addison-Wesley), ISBN 0-201-63357-4
- Building Internet Firewalls by D. Brent Chapman and
Elizabeth D.
Zwicky published by O'Reilly & Associates,
1st Edition September 1995
517 pages, list price $29.95, ISBN 1-56592-124-0 (information
also available at
http://www.greatcircle.com/firewalls-book/).
Unix System Security
- Unix System Security: A Guide for Users and System
Administrators, by
David Curry (O'Reilly & Associates).
- Practical Unix Security, by Simson Garfinkel
and Gene Spafford
(O'Reilly & Associates,Inc.)
ISBN 0-937175-72-2
Cryptography
- Applied Cryptography, by Bruce Schneier (Wiley), 618 pages,
$44.95, ISBN 0-471-59756-2.
Perl
- Programming Perl, by Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz
(O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.),
ISBN 0-937175-64-1
Lincoln D. Stein, lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu
Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research
Last modified: Thu Mar 28 12:43:43 EST 1996