Ebook: Web Security, Privacy & Commerce

Table of Contents; Preface; Web Security: Is Our Luck Running Out?; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Comments and Questions; History and Acknowledgments; PART I. Web Technology; Chapter 1. The Web Security Landscape; The Web Security Problem; Risk Analysis and Best Practices; Chapter 2. The Architecture of the World Wide Web; History and Terminology; A Packet's Tour of the Web; Who Owns the Internet?; Chapter 3. Cryptography Basics; Understanding Cryptography; Symmetric Key Algorithms; Public Key Algorithms; Message Digest Functions; Chapter 4. Cryptographyand the Web.;Since the first edition of this classic reference was published, World Wide Web use has exploded and e-commerce has become a daily part of business and personal life. As Web use has grown, so have the threats to our security and privacy--from credit card fraud to routine invasions of privacy by marketers to web site defacements to attacks that shut down popular web sites. Web Security, Privacy & Commerce goes behind the headlines, examines the major security risks facing us today, and explains how we can minimize them. It describes risks for Windows and Unix, Microsoft Internet Explor.