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The Data Journalism Handbook – Get new skills for a new career that’s actually in demand – #bookreview

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The Data Journalism Handbook: How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News Edited by Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, and Lucy Chambers (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Arise, ye downtrodden, unemployed newspaper and magazine writers and editors yearning to be working again as journalists. Data journalism apparently is hiring. Data journalism? I didn’t know, either, until … Continue reading The Data Journalism Handbook – Get new skills for a new career that’s actually in demand – #bookreview

Machine Learning for Hackers – Analyzing & displaying data using R – #bookreview #in #programming

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Machine Learning for Hackers By Drew Conway and John Myles White (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $39.99; Kindle edition, list price $31.99) The word “hacker“ has a very bad reputation in many parts of the computer world. This book’s two authors, however, offer a different and much more positive view. “Far from the stylized depictions of nefarious … Continue reading Machine Learning for Hackers – Analyzing & displaying data using R – #bookreview #in #programming

Inside Cyber Warfare, 2nd Edition – You’re at the front line & you can’t retreat – #bookreview

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Inside Cyber Warfare (2nd Edition) By Jeffery Carr (O’Reilly, paperback, list price $39.99; Kindle edition, list price $31.99) A global war for survival is in full battle, and you — or at least one or more of your computers — may now be right at the front line, already in the fight. Actually, in cyber warfare, there … Continue reading Inside Cyber Warfare, 2nd Edition – You’re at the front line & you can’t retreat – #bookreview

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications – #programming #bookreview

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The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications By Michal Zalewski (No Starch Press, paperback, list price $49.95 ; Kindle edition, list price $31.95) When Michal Zalewski writes, people listen. And many software programmers pay — or should pay — very close attention to what he recommends. Zalewski is an internationally respected information … Continue reading The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications – #programming #bookreview

A Bug Hunter’s Diary: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Software Security – #programming #bookreview

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A Bug Hunter’s Diary: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Software Security By Tobias Klein (No Starch Press, paperback, list price $39.95; Kindle edition, list price $31.95) If your passion or desire is to find and kill software bugs and fight hackers, you should check out this well-written how-to book. Tobias Klein, an information … Continue reading A Bug Hunter’s Diary: A Guided Tour through the Wilds of Software Security – #programming #bookreview

Here’s the book scaring me this Halloween: America the Vulnerable – #bookreview #data #security

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Subtitled “Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare,” America the Vulnerable is written by Joel Brenner, former inspector general at the National Security Agency. Brenner has recent experience at the highest levels in national intelligence, counterintelligence and data security. And he has studied firsthand many of the threats and attacks against our national, corporate and personal … Continue reading Here’s the book scaring me this Halloween: America the Vulnerable – #bookreview #data #security

Privacy and Big Data – #bookreview #nonfiction

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Privacy and Big Data By Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff (O’Reilly Media, $19.99, paperback; $16.99, Kindle) Worried about the safety of your personal data? That genie, unfortunately is long out of the bottle—and very likely spread all over the planet now. In Privacy and Big Data, authors Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff provide an … Continue reading Privacy and Big Data – #bookreview #nonfiction

The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler – #bookreview

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The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler By Chris Eagle (No Starch Press, $69.95, paperback; $55.95, Kindle) The popular interactive disassembler IDA Pro helps reverse engineers, malware analysts, vulnerability testers and others dissect computer programs when source code is not available. Unfortunately, IDA Pro is updated so frequently, it’s … Continue reading The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World’s Most Popular Disassembler – #bookreview

Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices – #bookreview

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Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices By Earle Castledine, Myles Eftos & Max Wheeler (SitePoint, $39.95, paperback; $27.99, Kindle) By 2013, in some estimates, mobile devices such as smartphones and “other browser-equipped phones” will outnumber the world’s 1.78 billion PCs. Meanwhile, the “mobile share of overall web browsing” is now growing rapidly. And: “We’re never … Continue reading Build Mobile Websites and Apps for Smart Devices – #bookreview

Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide – #bookreview

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Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide By David Kennedy, Jim O’Gorman, Devon Kearns and Mati Aharoni (No Starch Press, $49.95, paperback; $27.99, Kindle) Penetration testing is the process of testing enterprise networks to discover their weaknesses, so they can be made more secure, according to HD Moore, founder of The Metasploit Project. As a penetration tester, Moore states … Continue reading Metasploit: The Penetration Tester’s Guide – #bookreview