Wireshark is by far the most popular network traffic analyzing tool.
It not only provides an interface for traffic capture but also provides a rich platform for an in-depth analysis of the traffic. The GUI provides a very user friendly and interactive media that simplifies the process of network forensics. This concise book...
As technology has developed, computer hackers have become increasingly sophisticated, mastering the ability to hack into even the most impenetrable systems. The best way to secure a system is to understand the tools hackers use and know how to circumvent them. Defense against the Black Arts: How Hackers Do What They Do and How to...
Expert C# 5.0 is a book about getting the best from C#. It’s based on the principle that to write good, high-performance, robust applications you need to understand whats going on deep under the hood. If you are already experienced with writing managed applications and want to learn more about how to get the best from the ...
Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a variety of fields for the purposes of analysis, simulation, prediction and diagnosis.
This book provides a general introduction to Bayesian networks,...
My great-grandfather was a furniture maker. I am writing this on his table, sitting in his
chair. His world was one of craft, “the skilled practice of a practical occupation.”1 He made
furniture late in life that was in superficial respects the same as that which he made earlier,
but one can see his craft advance.
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The introduction was composed by Jennifer L. Bayuk, the editor of this volume. It
briefly describes the history of the cyberforensics field and places the subsequent
chapters into context. The last section of the introduction, Expert Explanations,
describes the format of the following sections and also how the sections complement...
Since the publication of Malware Forensics: Investigating and
Analyzing Malicious Code in 2008, the number and
complexity of programs developed for malicious and illegal
purposes has grown substantially. The 2011 Symantec Internet
Security Threat Report announced that over 286 million new
threats emerged in the past year....
This textbook is designed for two principal photography student types. One group is the student in an
academic setting. Students are expected to acquire a solid grasp of the theories and concepts of their
various courses. This is the Knowledge point of the “KSAs” frequently required by employers. Students
in an academic...
"Cybercrime and cyber-terrorism represent a serious challenge to society as a whole." - Hans Christian Krüger, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe
Crime has been with us as long as laws have existed, and modern technology has given us a new type of criminal activity: cybercrime. Computer and...
In April 2005, I received a telephone call from Humana Press Senior Editor, Harvey Kane, inquiring whether there might be a need for a book to be published concerning the different aspects of computer forensics. During a subsequent meeting to discuss the current state of available texts covering this topic, I noted to Mr. Kane that there were...
A computer forensics "how-to" for fighting malicious code and analyzing incidents
With our ever-increasing reliance on computers comes an ever-growing risk of malware. Security professionals will find plenty of solutions in this book to the problems posed by viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, rootkits, adware,...
Several electronic layers exist in most documents, a fact overlooked
by many writers. Probing these sublayers often reveals information
not intended for release by the author. Documents in electronic formats
create a “palimpsest” that even semiskilled investigators can probe for
sensitive data.
