||boek: Teach Yourself Delphi 2 in 21 days||SAMS|Borland Press

||door: Dan Osier, Steve Batson, Steve Grobman

||taal: en
||jaar: 1996
||druk: 1st Edition
||pag.: 706p
||opm.: paperback|like new

||isbn: 0-672-30863-0
||code: 1:000637

This is a 1st edition!

--- Over het boek (foto 1): Teach Yourself Delphi 2 in 21 days ---

This unique book presents Delphi programming in logical, easy-to-follow sequences that have made the Teach Yourself series a bestseller. The reader begins learning the basics of Delphi and then moves on to more advanced topics.

• Guides the reader through a system for learning a programming language in a set period of time
• Question & answer sections answer the most commonly asked questions
• Includes a detailed study of looping, records, arrays, branching, data manipulation, and more.

[source: https--www.amazon.com]

Not for beginners [1998-02-19]

One of the worst introductory books I've seen. There are many unrelated windows/OOP topics in the first week. When teaching you the programming, I found the difficulty level is poorly handled. In the first day of real programming, you are taught threads! For a beginner, you have to learn many of the common components by yourself, the book doesn't help you much. The authors claimed to be VB programmers too. They should have read 'Teach yourself VB 5 in 21 days' and 'Teach yourself C++ in 21 days' before starting to write.

Xiangshang Li [source: https--www.amazon.com]

--- Over (foto 2): Dan Osier ---

Niets van te vinden op het internet (2021), dus ook geen foto

--- Over (foto 3): Steve Batson ---

Moeilijk te disambigueren op het internet (2021), dus ook geen foto

--- Over (foto 4): Steve Grobman ---

Steve Grobman is senior vice president and chief technology officer at McAfee. In this role, he sets the technical strategy and direction to create technologies that protect smart, connected computing devices and infrastructure worldwide. Grobman leads McAfee's development of next generation cyber-defense and data science technologies, and threat and vulnerability research.

Prior to joining McAfee, he dedicated more than two decades to senior technical leadership positions related to cybersecurity at Intel Corporation where he was an Intel Fellow.

He has written numerous technical papers and books and holds 30 U.S. patents. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

[source: https--www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/about/steve-grobman.html]

Steve Grobman is an Intel Fellow and the Chief Technology Officer for Intel Security Group at Intel Corporation. In this role, he sets the technical strategy and direction for the company's security business across hardware and software platforms, including McAfee and Intel's other security assets. Steve joined Intel in 1994 as an architect in IT and has served in a variety of senior technical leadership positions during his Intel career. Before assuming his current role in late 2014, he spent a year as chief technology officer for the Intel Security platform division. Prior to that role, he spent two years as Chief Technology Officer at Intel's subsidiary McAfee to integrate security technology from the two companies. In prior roles, he served as chief security technologist for the Intel Atom processor system-on-chip design group and spent seven years as chief architect for Intel vPro technology platforms. In the latter position, he led work on the solutions architecture that resulted in a business platform with unique hardware-based management and security capabilities. Before joining Intel, he spent four years at IBM as a solutions programmer and developer. Grobman has published a number of technical papers and books, and holds 20 U.S. and international patents in the fields of security, software, and computer architecture, with about another 20 patents pending. He is also the recipient of two Intel Achievement Awards, the first earned in 2005 for the invention, initial architecture, and strategy of the first PC embedded appliance; and the second in 2007 for the success of the Intel vPro technology platform. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

[source: https--www.sourcesecurity.com/people/steve-grobman.html]

Cybercriminals will go where the market dictates. Next up is Cryptojacking [2018-11-01]

Bad actors will attack points of least resistance where they can easily monetise their efforts, according to Steve Grobman, McAfee SVP and CTO. It means the attack surfaces are constantly in flux and new solutions are needed. The next boon for cybercriminals is "cryptojacking".

"The pattern that we see is cybercrime is market driven and you will see cybercriminals moving to any untapped market," Grobman told Which-50 during the MPower cybersecurity conference in Sydney this week.

"It's just like legitimate business; If you have an untapped market somebody will try to address that market."

Being market driven means cybercrime is constantly shifting, according to Grobman, who used the progression from credit card data theft to ransomware as an example.

"They can now hold a victim hostage directly and, instead of having to sell stolen data, get paid by the victim."

Steve Grobman, McAfee SVP and CTO

The latest shift is crypto-jacking, driven by the rising value of cryptocurrency, Grobman said.

Malware allows bad actors to take hijack users' systems and mine coins in the background, removing the greatest costs of crypto coin mining, hardware and power. The practice is on the rise, increasing 629 per cent in Q1 2018 then another 86 per cent in Q2, according to McAfee, which recorded 2.5 million new cryptomining malware samples in the latest quarter.

"Our latest data shows that crypto-jacking was one of the big shifts this year. It's a lucrative market that with the high valuation of cryptocurrencies became very attractive," Grobman told Which-50.

And while threats will remain in all areas, the amount of criminals using a particular method will depend on where money can be made more easily.

Ultimately, where cybercriminals will strike next will be determined by how easily they can "monetise the output from their objective", a point often obscured by the focus on technology vulnerability, according to the McAfee CTO.

"It's not just about how vulnerable a technology is to a criminal endeavour but what is the monetisation mechanism a cybercriminal would use."

Machine learning

And as the attackers exploit new avenues in increasingly sophisticated ways, McAfee is using emerging technology as a defence. The firm has a suite of products, some of which combine human threat analysis with machine learning.

"Both machine learning and humans are good at different things," Grobman said.

"Machine learning is good at analysing data at scale and identifying patterns or trends that are representative of what has been seen in the past."

However, the technology is less viable at identifying new or unknown threats, an area where humans can excel, according to Grobman. Of course humans can not conduct the data analysis at the scale required in modern enterprises. Combining the two produces "the best of both worlds", Grobman said.

However, it is important they work in unison, Grobman argued, rather than assigning humans and machines to the areas they excel in.

"If you actually get them working together you find things you wouldn't find otherwise."

Joseph Brookes [source: https--which-50.com/cybercriminals-will-go-where-the-market-dictates-next-up-is-cryptojacking]