PART I
Introduction
This section introduces the concept of security in general and information security in particular. The intention was also to provide a historical perspective about information security.
Chapter 1, “Introduction to Security,” highlights three examples of information security breaches recently published on the internet. The first example explains how the encrypted messages can be read by injecting plaintext into HTTPS request and measuring compression changes. The second example explains how the NSA was provided direct access to the networks of some of the big corporations like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft and how the tapping ...
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