The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Internet Security Alerts
- RISKS, Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems: 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
The CGI Security FAQ
- CGI security FAQ
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
Java Security
- Java Security: From HotJava
to Netscape and Beyond, Drew Dean, Edward W. Felten, and Dan S. Wallach. 1996 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, CA, May 1996.
Lincoln D. Stein, lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu
Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research
Last modified: Fri Apr 26 09:09:00 EDT 1996