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Archived News

08/17/07: Google launches Ad Traffic Quality Center
07/01/07: Learn the Essentials of Security
04/12/07: Google Dissects a Clickbot, And Discusses The Cost Of Click Fraud
04/10/07: A new case study on botnet-based click fraud
03/01/07: Book Release: Foundations of Security

05/02/06: Patent # 7,039,656 Granted
03/07/06: An Experimental Study of Skype P2P VoIP Blog Post
2/27/06: Skype Paper Published & Presented at IPTPS 2006

12/16/05: What's In Store To Make Wireless More Secure?
8/2/05: Cisco, Researcher Scrap Causes Fallout
7/1/05: Protecting Systems Before They're Attacked
04/13/05: Center offers computer security courses
04/07/05: KGO Radio Interviews Neil About Pharming (MP3)
04/06/05: New computer security certificate program launched
03/15/05: Stanford Announces Online Security Certificate
03/08/05: Patent # 6,865,680 Granted.
01/10/05: Securing A Wireless World

08/18/04: Digital Signature Concerns Emerge
07/26/04: Pong-Cache Poisoning in GUESS paper Accepted
05/26/04: Passed PhD Defense!

10/31/03: Student entrepreneur group unveils contests
11/23/02: Query-Flood DoS Attacks paper presented
11/11/02: P2P Security work covered in New Scientist Online Magazine (article also mentioned on Slashdot )
11/05/02: Patent # 6,477,565 Granted.


Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know
teaches you state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques you need to build secure software systems. Once you're enabled with the techniques covered in this book, you can start to alleviate some of the inherent vulnerabilities that make today's software so susceptible to attack. The book uses web servers and web applications as running examples throughout the book.

"Information Technology is for everyone, not just geeks. But that means security is everyone's business, as you will discover in the pages of this excellent book!"
-- Vint Cerf, A Founding Father of the Internet

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