Relevant links

A list of links, which will hopefully grow during the course. (Please send me more interesting links, or add them yourself (see below)!)

• Highlights of Symantec's security threat report
• Slashdot security topics - "News for Nerds, stuff that matters"
  • Article on security awareness and implementation - read discussion too.
• Security Myths and Passwords - an article by Eugene Spafford.
• The poor passwords at the social democratic party used by the liberal party (in Swedish, but try a translator service?)
• SecurityFocus - lots of information on security (news, vulnerabilities, tools...)
• Computer Security is Not a Science (but should be) - an argumentative paper about the state of computer security as a science.
• The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security
• The Risks Digest - Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
• SANS Security Policy Project - How a policy should govern the security work. What to expect from a policy and what can be implemented. Examples of policies.
• What is digital timestamping? - see also http://www.digistamp.com.
• http://multicians.org - about the Multics operating system
• Linux PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux (also available for Solaris), see also Hardening Linux authentication and user identity.
• The SANS Top 20 Internet Security Vulnerabilities
• 29A Labs - Low level programming/networking computer virus techniques and I+D electronic magazine
• to be filled in...
• Links from Johannes Gumbel
• Do's and don'ts of Client Authentication - A nice whitepaper from some people at MIT.

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