---------- Forwarded message ---------- http://www.attackprevention.com/forum/comments.php?id=10 Posted Feb 12, 2006 - 01:55 PM: Subject: Official (ISC)2 Guide is a fraud I have been reviewing Official (ISC)^2 Guide to the CISSP Exam [1]", Susan Hansche/John Berti/Chris Hare, for one my classes and noticed it has widespread plagiarism and what appear to be copyright violations, including materials at the following verbatim http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/cpsc/cryptography/vigenere.html In the text, at page 406, "One of the main problems with simple substitution ciphers is that they are so vulnerable to frequency analysis..." It also contains an exact copy of a copyrighted whitepaper (without reference or citation) from, of all things, the American Bar Association, at the following link: http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/dsg-tutorial.html Just as an example, the entire chapter on key management is a copy and paste of that paper. At page 429 of the textbook, Public Key Certificates and Certificate Authorities, compared to this publication by the paper from American Bar Association under Public Key Certificates, these are word-for-word. Indeed the entire chapter on ciphers appears to be stolen off of the WWW. Given that this book is on information security with an entire chapter on ethics, I think this a travesty. I have notified the publisher of this and they are investigating. I thought you might be interested as well. mad _____________________ ------------------ Michael Workman, Ph.D. College of Information Florida State University [1] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/084931707X/c4iorg _________________________________ InfoSec News v2.0 - Coming Soon! http://www.infosecnews.org
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