Cybercrime, Infowar, and Infosecurity

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• The Cryptography Project - cryptography articles and pages
• Books and papers by Dorothy Denning
• Presentations
• Information Warfare course (COSC 511)
• Georgetown Essays in Information Warfare - essays by students in COSC 511
• Information Warfare Database (back online!) - with more than 100 incidents - originally compiled by Doug Casey, Joe Gugliotta, and Mark Sample as a project for COSC 511, Spring 1997, and brought back on-line in May 2000 by the Terrorism Research Center with help from COSC 511 students Brett Williams and Joel Niedfeldt.
• Other resources

Books and Papers by Dorothy Denning

• Cyberterrorism, Testimony before the Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representative, May 23, 2000.
• Information Warfare and Security, Addison-Wesley, 1999. Errata.
• Activism, Hacktivism, and Cyberterrorism: The Internet as a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy, sponsored by the Nautilus Institute.
• The Limits of Formal Security Models,  National Computer Systems Security Award Acceptance Speech, October 1999.
• Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace (Word 97 without figures) - Denning and Baugh, Information, Communication and Society,  Vol. 2, No. 3, 1999, pp. 251-276.  Also to appear in Cybercrime, Routledge.  Use of encryption, steganography, anonymity services, and other technologies for hiding crimes.   An HTML version  is on John Young's Cryptome.
• Who's Stealing Your Information? - Information Security, April 1999
• Internet Besieged: Countering Cyberspace Scofflaws, Addison-Wesley, 1998, with Peter J. Denning
• Protection and Defense of Intrusion, Presented at Conf. on National Security in the Information Age, US Air Force Academy, Feb. 1996.
• Location-Based Authentication: Grounding Cyberspace for Better Security, Computer Fraud & Security, Feb. 1996. Use of Global Positioning System for authentication.
• A New Paradigm for Trusted Systems, New Security Paradigms Workshop, 1992.
• Hackers
• Concerning Hackers Who Break Into Computer Systems - National Computer Security Conf., 1990.
• Postscript to "Concerning Hackers" - 1995.
• The Unites States v. Craig Neidorf - A Viewpoint on Electronic Publishing, Constistutional Rights, and Hacking, Comm. of the ACM, March 1991 (opening article in debate); my final rebuttal
• An Intrusion-Detection Model, IEEE Trans. on Software Eng., February 1987 (also presented at the 1986 Symp. on Security and Privacy)  - RTF format
• Cryptography papers

Presentations (in Power Point)

• Cyberrime on the Net - Greater Washington Technology Showcase, September 1, 1999

Other Resources

• Alvaro Alvarez's Center for Information Warfare Research
• American Society for Industrial Security
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference -- see Information Security Bookshelf
• Centrax Corp. - security software
• China Guide, Information Warfare News Links
• cipher- security newsletter archive
• Fred Cohen's site all.net
• Collaborations on Internet Security (CIS) Project
• Computer Crime and Investigation Center of Ohio Valley Business Net
• Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
• Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) - Internet Hoaxes on Virsuses and Trojans
• Computer Security Institute (CSI)
• Computer Underground Digest (CUD)
• Computer Virus Myths
• Myron Cramer's web page
• Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO)
• Crypt Newsletter
• Cybercop home page of Kevin Manson
• CyberSecurities Law - Internet securities fraud, regulation
• Department of Defense
•  An Assessment of International Legal Issues in Information Operations
• Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
• Federal Guidelines for Searching and Seizing a Computer
• David Dittrich  papers on Distributed Denial of Service Attack Tools
• Dunigan's security page
• Emergency Response & Research Institute, EmergencyNet News Service
• Ernst &Young and Information Week Security Survey- 1996, 1997
• Dan Farmer - Internet Security Survey
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Internet fraud
• Generally Accepted Security Principles (GASSP)
• Gibson Research Corp. - See Shield's Up!
• IBM Secure Way - Antivirus Online
• ICSA - Security Wire
• Information Security Magazine
• 1999 industry survey in July 1999 issue
• 1999 Virus survey
• Idaho State University Information Security Resources - Green Book: Integrating Information Security
• Infowar.com - Winn Schwartau's site of information warfare resources
• Institute for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare
• International Centre for Security Analysis at King's College, London
• Journal of Infrastructural Warfare (IWAR)
• MIT Information Security Office
• National Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education
• National Information Systems Security Conference
• NIST Computer Security Resource Clearinghouse
• The Open Group - Security and Electronic Commerce
• Packet Storm - Internet Security Solutions
• Mark Pollitt - Cyberterrorism - Fact or Fancy?
• President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
• Princeton University Safe Internet Programming
• Purdue
• CERIAS - Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
• Purdue COAST - Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology
• RAND Publications
• RISKS
• Security Focus - news, articles, and tools on information warfare and security
• Seven Locks Software - security digest and information
• Shield UP! - Steve Gison's site that checks the security of your computer
• Site Security Handbook - IETF Draft
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Ronald Standler - essays on legal issues
• Strategic Assessment Center, SAIC
• TECS: The Encyclopedia of Computer Security
• Telstra - Computer and Network Security Reference Index
• The Terrorism Research Center - Information Warfare Research Center
• Terrorists, Freedom Fighters, Crusaders, Propagandists, and Mercenaries on the Net
• The Training Company - training for law enforcement and industry
• The Third Wave Revolution: Netwars and Activists Power on the Net
• University of New Mexio - papers by Stephanie Forrest and others on intrusion detection
• The twURLed World of Critical Infrastructure and Information Warfare
• Urban legends list at urbanlegends.about.com
• Virus hoaxes - Datafellows site
• Warroom Research
• Randall Whitaker's Information Warfare site. - contains extensive glossary, bibliography, and guide to Internet resources
• WWW Security FAQ