Security Engineering: A guide to building dependable distributed systems by
Ross Anderson, Wiley, £42.95, ISBN 0471389226
AT A time when the Internet’s emergency warning centre CERT can be brought
down by online “denial of service” attacks, and when cheeky hackers out to
improve their Net cred daily mount multiple assaults on the Pentagon, keeping
abreast of Internet security is more important than ever.
Regardless of President Bush’s plans for a National Missile Defense system,
governments are fast realising they are more vulnerable to foreign aggressors on
the electronic front than almost anywhere else.
And with the growth of e-commerce and…
