Product Description

On-line harassment and stalking, security for your e-mail, data security, virus implantation, fraud, credit card access, identity theft, children and pornography, threats to your privacy - there are dozens of evils lurking out there beyond the monitor screen. Here are simplified answers to protecting your computer, your family, yourself and your business from the cyber nasties cruising the Internet and the worldwide web. Cyber Crime is a non- technical guide written in plain English, offering easy-to-implement answers and an indispensable appendix, including a list of online resources and a glossary. You and your computer will breath a sigh of relief after you've read Cyber Crime and followed the suggestions it offers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3377386 in Books
• Published on: 1996-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Amazon.com Review
Things can go wrong in cyberspace. There's fraud, stalking, viruses, outright theft, and more. And while the online world is still not nearly as dangerous as the physical realm, it pays to take precautions against victimization. To that end, Laura Quarantiello offers a detailed look at what's happening in the world of computer crime, complete with insights into the minds of the perpetrators--from the mischievous to the malicious. Her stories include both the disturbing and the heartening, and the advice she's collected--from "cybercops" and "cybercriminals" alike, is well worth heeding.

Review
Cyber crime manifests itself as pornography on the web, online harassment and stalking, e-mail security violation, data security violation, virus implantation, fraud, unauthorized credit card access, and more. Cyber Crime is a much needed book wherein readers will learn about the three step scale of vulnerability, cyber-cops and how they walk the "digital beat" and view intimate portraits of hackers and the tools they use. Complete with indispensable appendices, a list of online resources and a glossary of terms, Cyber Crime is as vital an addition to the computer shelf as any "how-to" software manual. -- Midwest Book Review

From the Publisher
Welcome to the dark side of cyberspace! Here is a Cook's tour of online crime, with sound, practical advice (some of it from the hackers themselves!) which you can put to immediate use. Cyber Crime is everybody's quick 'n easy guide to safeguarding home and business computers and keeping clear of the online bad guys. Covers phreakers, hackers, viruses, harassment, data diddling, stalking, fraud, pornography, pedophiles, e-mail security, privacy.

Customer Reviews

Wonderful
Ms. Quarantiello has truly written a masterful work on computer crimes, and prevention thereof that can be understood easily by even the worst computer users (as a collective group) in the world... The police!. I am quite impressed, and will be using this book to teach the police to teach the public

Too short on solution
I must admit I am disappointed in this book. I expected more. A far better book on Internet safety is "Life and Death on the Internet" by Keith Schroeder. "Life and Death" is actually used as a training manual in many police departments and the Criminal Justice Dept at Indiana University, where I first read "Life and Death". "Life and Death" is helpful to parents while "Cyber Crime" spends too much time preaching about the problem without providing adaquate solutions.