It's nearly impossible to pick up a newspaper or read your favorite online news source these days without seeing yet another article about identity theft or credit card numbers being stolen from unprotected databases. Cyber crime and the threat of computer-related attacks are growing daily, and the need for security professionals who...

“In this book, the authors adopt a refreshingly new approach to explaining the intricacies of the security and privacy challenge that is particularly well suited to today’s cybersecurity challenges. Their use of the threat–vulnerability–countermeasure paradigm combined with...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Methods, Models, and Architectures for Computer Network Security, MMM-ACNS 2010, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in September 2010. The 16 revised full papers and 6 revised short papers presented together with 5 invited papers were carefully...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2008, held in Slovakia, in 2008. The 57 revised full papers, presented together with 10 invited contributions, were carefully reviewed and selected from 162 submissions. The contributions are segmented...

ASP.NET Web API is a key part of ASP.NET MVC 4 and the platform of choice for building RESTful services that can be accessed by a wide range of devices. Everything from JavaScript libraries to RIA plugins, RFID readers to smart phones can consume your services using platform-agnostic HTTP.

With such wide accessibility,...

Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet? The answer is algorithms. And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves...