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Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90327-6•
Computer viruses: The application of epidemiology to computer viruses

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W. H. Murray
01 Apr 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This column is intended to give you an understanding of viruses and the issues that they raise.

167 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90325-2•
Special feature: Understanding the use of passwords

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Belden Menkus
01 Apr 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: How do you explain to employees that computer abuse, information theft, and like crimes actually hurt the employees themselves?

79 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90580-9•
On the privacy afforded by adaptive text compression

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Ian H. Witten1, John G. Cleary1•
University of Calgary1
01 Aug 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This paper introduces the modern approach to text compression and describes a highly effective adaptive method, with particular emphasis on its potential for protecting messages from eavesdroppers.

65 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90492-0•
Random bits & bytes: Electromagnetic interference

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Harold Joseph Highland
01 Feb 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This summary chapter seeks to confirm or modify the location and alignment of any communication towers and/ or links, taking into account any new towers or links or where any towers and links have been decommissioned.

55 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90009-0•
The personal model of data

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Joachim Biskup, Hans Hermann Brüggeman
01 Dec 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: In this article, a personal model of data has been designed to support privacy, where all individuals, users as well as data subjects are represented by encapsulated objects, and a privacy policy confines a person to its acquaintances by query modification and refuses evaluation of expressions if the person cannot exhibit appropriate authorities.

46 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90334-3•
Invited paper: On the implications of computer viruses and methods of defense

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Fred Cohen1•
University of Cincinnati1
01 Apr 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: A method by which certain classes of systems may be used to provide limited protection from computer viruses and by which general purpose experiments in new protection mechanisms may be explored is introduced.

32 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90335-5•
Refereed article: Organizational structuring of the computer security function

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Jr. Detmar W. Straub1•
University of Minnesota1
01 Apr 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: A normative model for organizational placement of the security function is offered as a solution to the present state of affairs and should greatly assist IS and top corporate managers in administering the information security area.

18 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90506-8•
Reviewd articles: Element-level classification with A1 assurance

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Teresa F. Lunt1, Dorothy E. Denning1, Roger R. Schell, Mark R. Heckman, William R. Shockley •
SRI International1
01 Feb 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This work achieves both the high degree of assurance required for Class A1 and the flexibility of element-level labeling by layering the TCB, where the lowest TCB layer is a reference monitor enforcing mandatory security.

17 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90204-0•
Some weak points of one fast cryptographic checksum algorithm and its improvement

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Yue Jiang Huang, Fred Cohen
01 Oct 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: Two flaws are found in a previously published fast cryptographic checksum algorithm used for maintaining the integrity of files in an information system: it is possible to append information to a file and generate a new valid cryptographic Checksum for the modified file, and it is Possible to forge changes to blocks whose value is less than the modulus used in the scheme under examination.

15 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90201-5•
Solutions to the multidestination secure electronic mail problem

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Chris J. Mitchell1, Michael Walker•
Hewlett-Packard1
01 Oct 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: Two approaches which can be used to solve the problem of providing security for electronic mail messages sent to more than one destination in an efficient and secure way are described.

15 citations

Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90576-7•
The brain virus: Fact and fantasy

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Harold Joseph Highland1•
State University of New York System1
01 Aug 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: The Bra in virus has the distinction of being the first computer virus to strike in the United States outside of a test laboratory and was named the Bra in because it wrote that word as the disk label on any floppy disk it attacked.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90504-4•
Reviewed articles: Protecting statistical databases against retrieval of private information

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Niv Ahituv1, Yeheskel Lapid1, Seev Neumann1•
Tel Aviv University1
01 Feb 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: The paper first demonstrates how such retrieval is made possible and provides a general algorithm that describes the retrieval procedures, and several protective measures are reviewed and critized.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90007-7•
Computer security policy: Important issues

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Jan H. P. Eloff1•
Rand Afrikaans University1
01 Dec 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: Issues of critical importance in compiling a computer security policy, such as accountability, responsibility and the actual scope of computer security, are addressed.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90196-4•
A context for information systems security planning

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Charles Cresson Wood
01 Oct 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: Why information security efforts are often ineffective and why more formal planning efforts can alleviate this condition is examined and the establishment of a context for effective information security planning is dwelled on.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90291-X•
Security in open system networks: A tutorial survey

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Aime J. Bayle
01 Oct 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: Presentation des protocoles de communication ISO assurant la securite du transfert de donnees entre ordinateurs de diverses configurations qui sont connectes ent between eux au sein d'un systeme ouvert.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90004-1•
Understanding password compromise

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Belden Menkus
01 Dec 1988-Computers & Security
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90578-0•
Potential applications of knowledge-based methods to computer security

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Rita C. Summers1, Stanley A. Kurzban1•
IBM1
01 Aug 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: Applications in other domains that offer insights for security and requirements for knowledge system tools are discussed in the light of the suggested applications.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90003-X•
How secure are computers in the U.S.A.

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Cliff Stoll1•
Harvard University1
01 Dec 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: The vulnerability of nodes on the Milnet and (by extrapolation) civilian computers to a particular type of attack: an outsider who attempts to log in by guessing at commonly used account name/password combinations is estimated.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90329-X•
Computer viruses: Are we vulnerable to a virus attack? A report from Sweden

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Viiveke Fåk
01 Apr 1988-Computers & Security
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90048-X•
Long arm of the law

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Esther H. Highland
01 Jun 1988-Computers & Security
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90507-X•
A public-key cryptosystem based on language theory

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Arto Salomaa1•
University of Turku1
01 Feb 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: A new public-key cryptosystem based on language theory: iterated morphisms and substitutions is described, which is evaluated from various points of view.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90075-2•
Computer systems under siege

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Esther H. Highland
01 Jun 1988-Computers & Security
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90028-4•
Special feature: The computer security act of 1987

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G. Will Milor
01 Jun 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This article will give a quick overview of some of the bill's requirements, when they are required and what changes to expect as a result of its enactment.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90621-9•
How safe is your data: Joseph M. Pujals Information Center, April 1988, p. 46

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Esther H. Highland
01 Aug 1988-Computers & Security
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90200-3•
The password predictor-a training aid for raising security awareness

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John M. Carroll1, Robert B. Mowat1, Lynda Robbins1, David Wiseman1•
University of Western Ontario1
01 Oct 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This program, intended for use by UNIX system administrators, attacks the one-way-encrypted password file and when it guesses a password, stores an encrypted warning message in the user's area.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90034-X•
Refereed article: Designing provably correct information networks with digital diodes

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Fred Cohen1•
University of Cincinnati1
01 Jun 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This paper introduces the digital diode as a sufficient component to implement a general purpose flow control network and proves that with this component, it can build any desired POset network and enforce its information flow properties.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90500-7•
Technical evaluation: Program aids for office automation security

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Harold Joseph Highland
01 Feb 1988-Computers & Security
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90505-6•
Reviewd articles: Message authentication and encryption combined

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Per Christoffersson
01 Feb 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: The conclusion is that several encryption schemes will protect well against active attacks with these ''natural'' redundancy controls, and other schemes are found not to be recommendable.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90008-9•
Implementing multilevel security by violation privilege

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John M. Carroll1•
University of Western Ontario1
01 Dec 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: A multilevel secure information system should be able to support a security structure consisting of a hierarchically defined sensitivity structure containing n levels and a category structure containing m compartments and it should simultaneously protect its contents from unauthorized disclosure arising from either access control violation or leakage, and from improper modification.
Journal Article•10.1016/0167-4048(88)90033-8•
Refereed article: The technical EDP-audit function

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Margaret E. Van Biene-Hershey
01 Jun 1988-Computers & Security
TL;DR: This paper presents a strategy for auditing EDP techniques and emphasizes the necessity of a dedicated technical EDP audit, and the relationship of the technical E DP audit to other audits is discussed.
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