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Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know teaches new and current software professionals state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques they need to build secure software systems. Once youre 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. For the past few years, the Internet has had a "wild, wild west" flavor to it. Credit card numbers are stolen in massive numbers. Commercial web sites have been shut down by Internet worms. Poor privacy practices come to light and cause great embarrassment to the corporations behind them. All these security-related issues contribute at least to a lack of trust and loss of goodwill. Often there is a monetary cost as well, as companies scramble to clean up the mess when they get spotlighted by poor security practices. It takes time to build trust with users, and trust is hard to win back. Security vulnerabilities get in the way of that trust. Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs To Know helps you manage risk due to insecure code and build trust with users by showing how to write code to prevent, detect, and contain attacks. The lead author cofounded the Stanford Center for Professional Development Computer Security Certification. This book teaches you how to be more vigilant and develop a sixth sense for identifying and eliminating potential security vulnerabilities. Youll receive hands-on code examples for a deep and practical understanding of security. Youll learn enough about security to get the job done.

This is a new book by Hal Abelson (a renowned computer scientist and computer science education researcher) and two others that delves into how pervasive use of computing is changing our world. It combines technological and sociological material. The full title is "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion." The book is used in UC Berkeley's "CS 0" introductory/non-majors course. It's a goldmine of material. It's published under a Creative Commons license, so you can buy a hard copy or just download the PDF. I am sure that you will find it valuable if you assign readings for any of the topics we have been discussing over the last few weeks.

Week3  Using the Electronic Library and Finding Information on the Web The First Step, Readings: Read the 3rd Week of 91-113 Using the Electronic Library Searching for Material on the Web Hacking Google Searchs The Second Step Advanced Google Hacking Readings: The concept of Google hacking is to use Google's advanced search tools and data to find data in the "deep web".