The World Wide Web Security FAQ
Internet Security Alerts
- RISKS, Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and
Related Systems:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks 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.
Old Versions of this Document
Only versions more recent than 1.3.5 are archived. Sorry!
- http://www.genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/previous/
Lincoln D. Stein, lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu
Whitehead Institute/MIT Center for Genome Research
Last modified: Wed May 7 10:00:20 EDT 1997