Books
- Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box, by Ryan Russell, Ido Dubrawsky, FX, Joe Grand, and Tim Mullen, Syngress 2003
- Web Security, Privacy, and Commerce, by Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, O'Reilly and Associates, 2nd edition 2002
Articles
- “Encrypted Root Filesystem HOWTO,” by Christophe Devine,
- Passphrase FAQ at Vanish.org
Software
- Keyring, open source encrypted password storage for Palm OS
- Jpilot, open source PIM software for Linux
- Oubliette, open source encrypted password storage for Windows
- Tripwire, open source file monitoring program for Linux (commercial for Windows)
- Chkrootkit, software for detecting rootkits in Unix-based systems,
- Spybot Search and Destroy, free proprietary software for detecting spyware in Windows
- Ad-Aware, commercial software for detecting spyware in Windows
- X-Cleaner, commercial software for detecting spyware in Windows
- GPG, open source encryption for files and email
- kgpg, open source graphical interface for GPG in KDE
- Windows Privacy Tools, open source GPG interface for Windows
- Ccrypt, open source symmetrical encryption
Web Sites
- Diceware, a system for generating random passphrases and passwords
- Security and Network Policy, an example security policy
- SANS Institute Security Newsletters
- Security Focus, regular security newsletters
- Linux Security Network newsletters
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