I want to go into security were do I go?

[whOOper]

Hi, I want to go into computer security I'm in high school right now and so far I've read the book C++ for dummies. Now that I'm done with that where do I go what do I learn I need advice please should I study virus's structure anti virus open source code or what. Note I don't want to get into hacking or any thing like that just security thanks for all answers whOOper.

[helios]

hacking

People who call themselves and each other hackers will resent you using that term like that. You're thinking of crackers.

A good place to start would be Mark Ludwig's Little Black Book of Computer Viruses, which is freely downloadable. There's also the Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses by the same author, which is not free.

Note that knowing C++ won't help you much here, as most of the related literature uses Assembly. These two books in particular use the (ugh) TASM dialect, IIRC.

None of this isn't what is normally called "computer security", though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security

[z05DSL3A]

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by Son Harris et al

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[writetonsharma]

after reading all this.. anybody will drop the idea of hacking.. hehehehe..

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