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Own Your Space: Keep Yourself and Your Stuff Safe Online Book

Discusses about keeping safe-protecting your data, your identity, and yourself without giving up all the great stuff the Net puts at your fingertips. This book helps...Read More

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    The book for teens that every parent should read!

    You have been immersed in the technology since preschool. You download music, Google your homework, and constantly IM your friends. You check your email before dinner, tweak your MySpace page, and bypass that hardcopy diary for your own 31337 space in the blogosphere. While you’re doing that, you also need to protect yourself. This book is about keeping safeâ??protecting your data, your identity, and yourself without giving up all the great stuff the Net puts at your fingertips.

    Learn how to

    • Kill viruses, worms, Trojans, and spyware
    • Give Spam the curb and smash web bugs
    • Understand just how public your “private” blogs are
    • Keep wireless freeloaders off your network
    • Safeguard your parents’ credit card and financial data
    • Understand what tools you need and how to tweak them

    Linda McCarthy is a Security Architect in the office of the CTO at Symantec. Linda has been in the security field for over a decade, and has broken into systems around the world to show executives how easy it is to break into their networks. Linda has published seven books on computer security, and is the author of IT Security: Risking the Corporation. Linda also received the Woman of Influence Award in 2004 for computer security, a prestigious award given annually to only four women in the world.

    A portion of the proceeds from this book have been designated by the author for nonprofit work to educate teens about Internet security.

    Acknowledgments

    About the Author

    Preface

    Chapter 1: Know Your Villains

    Chapter 2: Drive-By Malicious Code

    Chapter 3: Data Grabbers and Dumpers

    Chapter 4: Spy vs. Spy

    Chapter 5: Giving Spam the Curb

    Chapter 6: Pretenders and Pirates

    Chapter 7: Phishing for Dollars

    Chapter 8: Taming the Cookie Monster

    Chapter 9: Safe Cyber-Shopping

    Chapter 10: Private Blogs and Public Places

    Chapter 11: Any Port in a Storm

    Chapter 12: Look Pa, No Strings!

    Chapter 13: Protective Tools

    Chapter 14: Tweaks

    Appendix A: A Check List for Mom and Dad

    Index

  • 0321426428
  • 9780321426420
  • Linda McCarthy
  • 12 October 2006
  • Addison Wesley
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 240
  • 1
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