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19/03/2015 - The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to securing all mobile applications byapproaching (read more)

19/03/2015 - The Mobile Application Hacker's Handbook is a comprehensive guide to securing all mobile applications byapproaching the issue from a hacker's point of view. Heavil ypractical, this book provides expert guidance toward discovering and exploiting flaws in mobile applications on the iOS, Android,Blackberry, and Windows Mobile platforms. You will learn a provenmethodology for approaching mobile application assessments, and the techniques used to prevent, disrupt, and remediate the varioustypes of attacks.

Coverage includes data storage, cryptography,transport layers, data leakage, injection attacks, runtime manipulation, security controls, and cross-platform apps, with vulnerabilities highlighted and detailed information on the methods hackers use to get around standard security.

Mobile applications are widely used in the consumer andenterprise markets to process and/or store sensitive data. There iscurrently little published on the topic of mobile security, butwith over a million apps in the Apple App Store alone, the attacksurface is significant. (hide)

Learn the C++ programming language in a structured, straightforward, and friendly manner. This book teaches the basics of the modern (read more)

Learn the C++ programming language in a structured, straightforward, and friendly manner. This book teaches the basics of the modern C++ programming language, C++ Standard Library, and modern C++ standards. No previous programming experience is required.

C++ is a language like no other, surprising in its complexity, yet wonderfully sleek and elegant in so many ways. It is also a language that cannot be learned by guessing, one that is easy to get wrong and challenging to get right. To overcome this, each section is filled with real-world examples that gradually increase in complexity. (hide)

Fortran marches on, remaining one of the principal programming languages used in high-performance scientific, numerical, and engineering (read more)

Fortran marches on, remaining one of the principal programming languages used in high-performance scientific, numerical, and engineering computing. A series of significant revisions to the standard versions of the language have progressively enhanced its capabilities, and the latest standard - Fortran 2018 - includes many additions and improvements. This edition of Modern Fortran Explained expands on the last.

Given the release of updated versions of Fortran compilers, the separate descriptions of Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 have been incorporated into the main text, which thereby becomes a unified description of the full Fortran 2008 version of the language. This clearer standard has allowed many deficiencies and irregularities in the earlier language versions to be resolved. Four new chapters describe the additional features of Fortran 2018, with its enhancements to coarrays for parallel programming, interoperability with C, IEEE arithmetic, and various other improvements.
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Learn network and data security by analyzing the Anthem breach and step-by-step how hackers gain entry, place hidden software, download (read more)

Learn network and data security by analyzing the Anthem breach and step-by-step how hackers gain entry, place hidden software, download information, and hide the evidence of their entry. Understand the tools, establishing persistent presence, use of sites as testbeds to determine successful variations of software that elude detection, and reaching out across trusted connections to the entire healthcare system of the nation. Examine the components of technology being diverted, starting with application code and how to protect it with isolation approaches.

Dissect forms of infections including viruses, worms, bots, and Trojans; and encryption with RSA algorithm as the working example. (hide)

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it, using the same tactics attackers employ to identify and exploit (read more)

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it, using the same tactics attackers employ to identify and exploit weaknesses. With the third edition of this practical book, you'll learn how to perform network-based penetration testing in a structured manner. Security expert Chris McNab demonstrates common vulnerabilities, and the steps you can take to identify them in your environment.

System complexity and attack surfaces continue to grow. This book provides a process to help you mitigate risks posed to your network. Each chapter includes a checklist summarizing attacker techniques, along with effective countermeasures you can use immediately. (hide)

One book that does the work of nine Knowing your way around Microsoft Office requires you to be part mathematician, part storyteller, (read more)

One book that does the work of nine Knowing your way around Microsoft Office requires you to be part mathematician, part storyteller, and part graphic designer--with some scheduling wizard and database architect sprinkled in. So what do you do if these talents don't come naturally to you? Fear not! Office 2019 All-in-One For Dummies fills in the gaps and helps you create easy-to-read Word documents, smash numbers in Excel, tell your tale with PowerPoint, and keep it all organized with Outlook. With additional books covering Access, OneNote, and common Office tasks, this is the only Office book you need on your shelf. (hide)

Learn all of the available upgrade and migration methods in detail to move to Oracle Database version 12c. You will become familiar (read more)

Learn all of the available upgrade and migration methods in detail to move to Oracle Database version 12c. You will become familiar with database upgrade best practices to complete the upgrade in an effective manner and understand the Oracle Database 12c patching process. So it's time to upgrade Oracle Database to version 12c and you need to choose the appropriate method while considering issues such as downtime.

This book explains all of the available upgrade and migration methods so you can choose the one that suits your environment. You will be aware of the practical issues and proactive measures to take to upgrade successfully and reduce unexpected issues. With every release of Oracle Database there are new features and fixes to bugs identified in previous versions.

As each release becomes obsolete, existing databases need to be upgraded. Oracle Database Upgrade and Migration Methods explains each method along with its strategy, requirements, steps, and known issues that have been seen so far. This book also compares the methods to help you choose the proper method according to your constraints.
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Take the right steps when a breach of your Oracle Database environment becomes known or suspected. You will learn techniques for (read more)

Take the right steps when a breach of your Oracle Database environment becomes known or suspected. You will learn techniques for discerning how an attacker got in, what data they saw, and what else they might have done. This book helps you understand forensics in relation to Oracle Database, and the tools and techniques that should be used to investigate a database breach.

You will learn the measures to put in place now to make it harder for an attack to be successful, and to aid in the detection and investigation of future attacks. You will know how to bring together tools and methods to create a holistic approach and investigation when an event occurs, helping you to be confident of your ability to react correctly and responsibly to threats against your organization's data. What You'll LearnDetect when breaches have or may have occurredReact with confidence using an organized planDetermine whether a suspected breach is real Determine the scope of data that has been compromisedPreserve evidence for possible criminal prosecutionsPut in place measures to aid future investigationsWho This Book is ForDatabase administrators, system administrators, and other technology professionals who may be called upon to investigate breaches of security involving Oracle Database
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Building upon the wide-ranging success of the first edition, Parallel Scientific Computation presents a single unified approach to (read more)

Building upon the wide-ranging success of the first edition, Parallel Scientific Computation presents a single unified approach to using a range of parallel computers, from a small desktop computer to a massively parallel computer. The author explains how to use the bulk synchronous parallel (BSP) model to design and implement parallel algorithms in the areas of scientific computing and big data, and provides a full treatment of core problems in these areas,starting from a high-level problem description, via a sequential solution algorithm to a parallel solution algorithm and an actual parallel program written in BSPlib. Every chapter of the book contains a theoretical section and a practical section presenting a parallel program and numerical experiments on a modern parallel computer to put the theoretical predictions and cost analysis to the test.
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Permanently Online, Permanently Connected establishes the conceptual grounds needed for a solid understanding of the permanently (read more)

Permanently Online, Permanently Connected establishes the conceptual grounds needed for a solid understanding of the permanently online/permanently connected phenomena, its causes and consequences, and its applied implications. Due to the diffusion of mobile devices the ways people communicate and interact with each other and use electronic media has changed substantially within a short period of time. This megatrend comes with fundamental challenges to communication, both theoretical and empirical.

The book offers a compendium of perspectives and theoretical approaches from leading thinkers in the field to empower communication scholars to develop this research systematically, exhaustively, and quickly. It is essential reading for media and communication scholars and students studying new media, media effects and communication theory.

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