School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
University of Rochester

An Intro to Computer Security

Del Armstrong - John Simonson

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Conventions
  • Why Bother With Security?
• What you can do to protect your account
  • Passwords
    • Password Guessing
    • Password Sniffing
    • Social Engineering
  • File Permissions
    • How Unix File Permissions Work
    • Controlling Access to Your Files
    • Some Important Files
  • Viruses, Worms, Trojans and Social Engineering
    • Viruses
    • Worms
    • Trojan Horses
  • Heads up Computing
  • Email (and News)
    • Forgery
    • PGP
    • Privacy
    • Other Problems
• Some Computing Related Legal Issues
  • Why Deal with Legal Issues?
  • Who owns the files on the disk?
  • UR and HSEAS Policy
  • Forgery
  • Copyright
  • Liable, Slander, Defamation
  • Trade Secrets, Proprietary Information
  • Assault, Harassment
  • If You are Threatened
  • Unauthorized Use
  • Pornography
• Summary
• For more information
  • News
  • Mailing Lists
  • WWW Sites
  • Books
• About this document ...