Reference Library

A number of reference articles pertaining to IT security including a complete hacking lexicon.

US Government Accounting Office Report on the Internet Worm
This is the official United States Government Accounting Office report on the Internet Worm.

NIST Threat Assessment of Malicious Code
Threat Assessment of Malicious Code and Human Threats (NISTR 4939) by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The Helminthiasis of the Internet
Infestation with, or disease caused by parasitic worms of the Internet. RFC 1135 written by J. Reynolds of the Network Working Group.

NISP OPERATING Manual (NISPOM)
The United States National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM). Per Executive Order 12829 on behalf of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Director of Central Intelligence. Replaces the Department of Defense Industrial Security Manual for Safeguarding Classified Information, dated January 1991.

US DOD Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria
The United States Department of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria DOD 5200.28-STD (ORANGE BOOK)