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Mind the gap...between the actual level of cybersecurity and the amount required to protect you. Ever wondered what exactly is going so badly wrong in society that the fastest booming industry in the world is cybercrime? Psychology meets technology as this book explores how the rapid progression of technology is luring us all forwards at a pace that outstrips the human comfort zone. This book exposes the reasons that many organizations decide it is cheaper, easier and less painful in the short term to leave their security broken. Is security fixable? Or are we destined to remain at the mercy of cyber criminals? We take a look at the cyber house rules, a set of principles that lead to what makes cybersecurity effective or, if not addressed, leaves lar...

Web Geek's Guide to the Android-Enabled Phone Covers Android 1.5 Make the Most of Your Android-Enabled Phone! Out of the way BlackBerry. Move over iPhone. There's a more intelligent alternative to the same old smartphone. Google's Android mobile phone platform has all the capabilities of these phones and more. With this book, you'll unlock every bit of power that's built into the Android phone and learn how to take advantage of the incredibly innovative Android applications pouring into the marketplace. You'll even learn how to build (and sell) your own new applications. You'll begin with a quick, practical tour of the first Android phonethe T-Mobile G1. You won't just learn how to use your Android phone's built-in applications, you'll also learn...

Mathematics is beautiful--and it can be fun and exciting as well as practical. Good Math is your guide to some of the most intriguing topics from two thousand years of mathematics: from Egyptian fractions to Turing machines; from the real meaning of numbers to proof trees, group symmetry, and mechanical computation. If you've ever wondered what lay beyond the proofs you struggled to complete in high school geometry, or what limits the capabilities of computer on your desk, this is the book for you. Why do Roman numerals persist? How do we know that some infinities are larger than others? And how can we know for certain a program will ever finish? In this fast-paced tour of modern and not-so-modern math, computer scientist Mark Chu-Carroll explores so...