"This collection of essays explores current developments in privacy law, including reform of data protection laws, privacy and the media, social control and surveillance, privacy and the Internet, and privacy and the courts. It places these developments into a broader internatio…
Handbook of Big Data Privacy
Companies all over the world want to hire professionals dedicated to application security. Practical Web Penetration Testing focuses on this very trend, teaching you how to conduct application security testing using real-life scenarios. To start with, you'll set up an environmen…
Pt. 1. Modern homes -- pt. 2. Sexual difference -- pt. 3. Opting out -- pt. 4. Vulnerability -- pt. 5. Conflicted communities -- pt. 6. National security -- pt. 7. Openness -- pt. 8. Terror.
America's quagmire in Vietnam, France's preoccupation with overseas empire, Japan's attack on the United States, Germany's aggression in Europe, Britain's appeasement of Hitler - what motivated these bouts of self-defeating behavior? According to Charles A. Kupchan, all of these…
America's quagmire in Vietnam, France's preoccupation with overseas empire, Japan's attack on the United States, Germany's aggression in Europe, Britain's appeasement of Hitler - what motivated these bouts of self-defeating behavior? According to Charles A. Kupchan, all of these…
Edward Snowden's leaks exposed fundamental differences in the ways Americans and Europeans approach the issues of privacy and intelligence gathering. Featuring commentary from leading commentators, scholars and practitioners from both sides of the Atlantic, the book documents an…
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of connected computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects and/or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interac…
In the modern world, sovereignty provides the conceptual framework enabling states to interact and claim supremacy over all other social forms. It is sovereignty that allows all states to be nominally equal, while also exerting a claim to be the highest authority in their own te…
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to a number of memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. At best, these errors cause crashes or performance degradation. At worst, they enable security vulnerabilities, allowing denial-of-service or remote code…
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is an automatic identification technology that uses radio frequency to identify objects. Securing RFID systems and providing privacy in RFID applications has been the focus of much academic work lately. To ensure universal acceptance of RFID…
Today’s security systems have been drawing great attentions as cryptographic algorithms have gained popularity due to the nature that make them suitable for use in constrained environment such as mobile sensor information applications, where computing resources and power availab…
For centuries the pursuit of competing political objectives has led to military conflict. Prussian military theorist Major-General Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will.” History has shown that the ability to affect an adversa…
After more than twelve years of major humanitarian, security and development aid and assistance from international community, the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan prepares to shift back security arrangements throughout the country from the International Security…