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COMPUTER CRIME BOOKS
Posted in Computer Crime (Saturday, March 13, 2010)
Written by Malcolm W. Nance. By CRC Press.
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5 comments about Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, Second Edition.
- 5-Stars on Mr. Nance's "Terrorist Recognition Hamdbook!" This should be considered a Terrorist Primer on terrorist awareness and preparedness for observing terrorist surveillance indicators and preplanning. It is "well-worth" the price tag and it is highly recommended!
Jeff Strohman, Antiterrorism Program Manager and Senior Instructor, USMC
- This book is an essential book for the intelligence operative, the fiction writer or anybody interested in the vital topic of terrorist operations. The author breaks the book down into understandable sections so that the reader can gain a comprehensive understanding of terrorism and terrorists. Afterward, you will understand weapons, cell organization, motivation, profiles and various active terrorist groups.
- ...would be to look in the mirror. The so-called "war on terror" was an unprovoked attack by the US on a country that had absolutely no involvement in 9/11. George Bush has been the world's most dangerous terrorist the last few years, but somehow he doesn't fit the author's narrow definition.
- Let me begin by saying I did not read this book. While searching for books by and about Comandante Marcos, Amazon directed me to this book. Reading the excerpt the author uses Marcos as an example of a terrorist. This gross error made me assume that this book is nothing but "intelligence" propaganda that continues to be spoon fed to the simple minded people of the world. My school, which is smaller, has an intelligence dept. funded by the NSA. The reasons for them placing it at a smaller school like mine is clear, we have a lot of students who are here because of the GI Bill. They are brainwashed in the military so why not continue brainwashing them to do our bidding. I signed up to take one of these course and dropped out right after reading the biased and no way near objective syllabus. This type of teaching is making us incredibly unsafe as a country and as a world and needs to be combated.
- There are several so-called "reviews" that have nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the book. Indeed, one "reviewer" admits that he didn't read the book at all, and the others are obvious political grandstanding - again having nothing to do with the merits of the book. These "reviews" should be completely ignored by anyone who is looking for a definitive discussion of terrorists and their methods. A "must read" for intelligence and security professionals, especially in the critical infrastructure sectors.
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Posted in Computer Crime (Saturday, March 13, 2010)
Written by Frank W. Abagnale. By Broadway.
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2 comments about Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan.
- According to law enforcement statistics every four seconds someone becomes a victim of predatory identity theft. However, just like any predator, identity thieves are looking for the easiest targets. The book Stealing Your Life by reformed check-kiter and conman Frank Abagnale can help anyone make it tougher to steal their identity. You may recognize Abagnale's name as the main character of the 2002 major motion picture Catch Me If You Can where actor Leonardo Dicaprio chronicled the late teen years of Abagnale who scammed millions in bad checks as he posed as an attorney, airline pilot and physician - before he was caught and prosecuted. Abagnale has since become a highly-sought after consultant by hundreds of police agencies across the country. Soundview thinks everyone with a social security number should read this book because the author outlines dozens of proven tactics to help protect yourselves against the real threat of identity theft. It truly can be said that the best way to catch a thief is to think like one, which is what Stealing Your Life helps the average person do in a practical (and completely legal) manner.
- Everyone should definitely read this book. Mr. Abagnale does a great job of making people aware of how vulnerable we all are to the dangers of identity theft.
What I didn't like was his tendency to sensationalize and exaggerate certain things; being able to access live satellite video feeds of your house on the internet, stuff like that. Yeah Google Earth and the street level view don't do much for privacy, but the satellite picture of my subdivision is so dated that it still shows a big patch of dirt. Hardly live, hardly a threat to your kids.
I say again, definitely buy this book and read it. You'll be a much more prepared and aware person for doing so. I can definitely see why he places so much emphasis on prevention, with more serious crime being so prevalent these days, the government doesn't have the resources to really go after identity thieves. Maybe we should all form an underground anti-identity theft vigilante group. Any takers?
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Posted in Computer Crime (Saturday, March 13, 2010)
Written by EC-Council. By Course Technology.
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1 comments about Computer Forensics: Hard Disk and Operating Systems (Ec-Council Press Series : Computer Forensics).
- The book is very well written and I was surprised about its topics. I recommended.
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Posted in Computer Crime (Saturday, March 13, 2010)
Written by George Reis. By Sybex.
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5 comments about Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators.
- As a former Forensic Video Analyst for a law enforcement agency, I can attest that not only is this the most thorough and easy to understand FVA "Course" book that I have ever read and gained the most from, the author is one of the top Forensic Video Analysts in the country, and even the world.
Any one who is interested in this profession, law enforcement and private, must have this book. Even if you already are an FVA professional, this book is an excellant reference source.
- Part 1, "The Essentials", is comprised of six chapters. The first two chapters are not specific to Photoshop, and are a must read for anyone interested or involved in the use of digital images within a legal setting. The remaining four chapters provide an important foundation for analysts and investigators using Photoshop.
Part 2, "The Digital Darkroom", and Part 3, "Image Analysis and Enhancement", are detailed instructions regarding Photoshop's settings, filters, and the multitude of related processes to achieve optimum imaging results. Included with the book is a CD-ROM contianing sample images to work with when going through the tutorials, as well as some free scripts and trial plugin's.
I've been using Photoshop for several years now in my Forensic Video workflow, as well as personally for Graphic and Web design projects. This book has already proven to be the single most valuable reference for me pertaining to the use of Photoshop in either setting. It's also probably the smartest investment I've made in quite some time.
- Photoshop CS3 for Forensic Professionals is by far the most informative course book for photoshop users. As a college student working towards a criminal justice degree with a concentration in criminal investigations, I highly recommend this book for any professional or student that needs to improve their digital imaging skills. The instructions are easy to understand and the step by step instructions on the companion CD are detailed. After reading Photoshop CS3 for Forensic Professionals and taking the CD course I can honestly say that my imaging skills have been greatly enhanced. This book is an excellent student resource and an invaluable tool for the forensic professional.
- This book is a must have for any analyst or examiner new to the role that needs to have a reference for best practices while using photoshop in the forensic world. George Reis has an uncanny ability to decipher the differences between what can be done and what should be done during a forensic examination. In other words, just because photoshop does it, doesn't mean that an analyst should use that tool or technique. George has a lengthy history in the law enforcement world. I can't wait until his next book of wisdom is released!
- Thanks to books like this and Amazon, I am now a Criminalist without being broke.
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Written by Chris Prosise and Kevin Mandia and Matt Pepe. By McGraw-Hill/Osborne.
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5 comments about Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition.
- This is no doubt the best incidence reponse book out. I highly recommend this for anyone either in the field, learning to get into the field, or running a small to medium sized company without a team of experts. My entire network admin team uses this as a reference at the side of their desk.
- I liked this book, but it is scattered in its topics. A lot of the information can be found online, and the tools aren't what we use on a daily basis. I'm not sure if any of them are commercial tools in this book.
I liked File System Forensics by Brian Carrier better. Even though it had a smaller area to cover it provided a better introduction to the area and I could see how it could be used in a class better. Still, this book does have a lot of good content and makes a nice addition.
- You must buy if you are beginner, intermedium or advanced in forensic computers.
- Must have been 5 years ago or so when I first bought this book. I have been using it ever since. This is not a Forensics book, but it is a nice marketing ploy to add it into the title.
This book is organized very methodologically. The book is divided into 4 parts.
.-Introduction
.-Data Collection
.-Data Analysis
.-Appendixes
The name "introduction" may be misleading for the Part I, since this part contains very important chapters, by following the processes and recommendations of the author makes responding to an incident simpler and more productive. There is nothing worse than a group of techies declaring an incident and start shutting down servers without a plan or a process. I have seen the web services of an organization go down for a week for the lack of planning, if they had a process in place all they had to do is shut down the ports the virus was using to propagate.
This may be an older book but it's still relevant, easy to understand and adopt. Of course NIST has the special publication SP800-61 to deal with IR and yet it is not as simple to read and understand.
Best Fishes and thank you for reading.
- Amazingly enough this book still has some value--human processes don't change that much. Their incident response examples seem charmingly innocent--like being called to assist a company with a single exchange server or setting a threshold of 5 affected machines. But,unless you're just nostalgic you probably want to stay away.
How big a machine do you need to run your tools on? Their specification for a forensics workstation calls for a "High end processor" with "A minimum of 256MB of RAM". (Yes, that's *megabytes* and I'm sure it was a screamer in its day.) And they keep talking about these things called "floppies"... Furthermore, I'm pretty sure their 7 year old tools are going to be pretty hit or miss in terms of their value and I'm guessing that the 7 year old links to web resources are going to be a little spotty.
Memo to self--check copyright dates next time.
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Written by Eoghan Casey BS MA. By Academic Press.
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5 comments about Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Second Edition.
- This is an excellent book from a real expert.
Everyone and their brother are writing books about computer security and digital forensics. The difference here is that Eoghan Casey knows what he is talking about. Excellent book!
- It describe all aspects about digital crimes using a clear language. It's very good for neubies.
- This is a textbook that deals with forensic computing from a law enforcement perspective. Divided into five distinct parts, it provides a thorough overview of computer crime laws, forensic methodology, and the process of investigating computer crime.
Fundamental procedures such as obtaining warrants prior to search and seizure, maintaining chain of custody, preserving and documenting the evidence, using multiple sources of corroborating evidence to establish important facts, and testifying in court are introduced in part one.
The next two parts cover the technical aspects of investigating criminal activity involving standalone computer systems and computer networks, respectively. These chapters discuss the technology at a fairly basic level and can be safely skimmed or skipped by readers familiar with the material from other forensic books, which tend to cover it in greater detail.
Part four is perhaps the most interesting in the book. Here the aforementioned techniques are applied to investigations of real-world crimes involving computer intrusions, Internet sex offenders, copyright infringement and online harassment. Elements of criminology are effectively combined with forensic computing methods to guide the investigators along in their quest to uncover the truth.
Guidelines for the handling of the digital crime scene and examination of digital evidence are detailed in part five.
The book is written at an introductory level. The content is technically accurate and the writing clear. References and citations are provided for most claims and statistics, and many examples drawn from real cases amplify the somewhat dry technical narrative. This is a fine introductory textbook worth the purchase price.
- If you are a lawyer or a police detective with some IT background it is one of the greatest book you can find to improve significantly your skills on evidence searching in the modern world where computers are part of day life of most, including law offenders and their victims.
Be aware this is not a text on "computer crime". Eventually it will include something on this subject, but its focus is "general" crime evidence searching.
On the other hand, if you have strong IT background you will find this book something like a tutorial and missing lots of "more advanced" possibilities, but can be useful for some initial hints to some techniques to be developed in other place.
- The book arrived within the specified time and was found to be in excellent condition.
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Written by Laura Levine. By Kensington.
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5 comments about Killer Cruise (Jaine Austen Mysteries).
- Laura Levine does it again with a smart, funny mystery. What a great beach read!
- I am a writer who was sent the book by a writer friend of mine. I don't know the author, Laura Levine, and I don't usually do reviews. But because I laughed the whole way through, I wanted to express my admiration - writer to writer - to Levine for the craftsmanship that made it such a good read. I'd appreciate another writer doing the same if (s)he liked my work.
Only one sentence in the entire book that I might have handled differently. Virtually pitch perfect. This isn't Shakespeare, but I gave you 5 stars because you aced the genre. Good job.
- Jaine Austen is a freelance writer living in LA with her cat Prozac. Let's say she's underutilized in the marketplace, and that her Saturday nights look an awful lot like Thursdays. Her diet is so nutrient deficient that she'll probably die of everything. But the girl can solve murders. In this wonderfully funny eighth entry, Jaine agrees to teach writing to recalcitrant cruisers in exchange for a week of cramped living in a ship's bowels with Prozac who has stowed away. You've read the product description, so I won't go further on the plot line except to say that I received this book when I was laid up with a vicious flu, and for several glorious hours I forgot my misery. If you could use a laugh, or many more, this is the way to go. I love this series.
- I looove the Jaine Austen series!!! She is funny, cute, smart - she always gets in trouble.
I give 5 stars.
- I found mistakes. That is something I find distracting. If a book has mistakes, I won't enjoy it. Too much in the book is not easily believed. Worse yet, the writer tries very hard to be funny. It is better when it is natural. Too many references to brownies, and that gets old.
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Posted in Computer Crime (Saturday, March 13, 2010)
Written by Marjie T. Britz. By Prentice Hall.
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4 comments about Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime: An Introduction (2nd Edition).
- "Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime," written by Marjie T. Britz and, publish by Pearson Education Inc., seems to be a very well balance book, why? It just took me few minutes, between reading the introductory notes and "browsing" to its chapters, to understand that this book is well sequenced and organized.
This author explains in rather a pleasant way this subject and gradually internalizes the students by attracting them to a more extensive regions of Computer forensics, as it is data analysis, reporting or computer investigations.
This is an important and interesting field, that is capturing the
attention of many professionals and envolves many disciplines, I just read the other day in one of those infamous blogs, "Computer Archeologists are using new and powerful computer forensics tools to examine and gain understanding of 'lifted data' that apparently was written 25 years ago." Nevertheless, this author seems to have made all the efforts to bring comprehensiveness by illuminating fundamental relationships,** not only between computer history and cyber crime, if not among many issues surrounding the applications of the fourth amendment and the understanding of the limits of government decency.
The management of these seemingly intricate relationships is crucial for our immediate future, as a nation, experiencing a yet unexplored global economy which is using extensively and intensively the eCommerce over intranets, internets and the Internet, and as a nation, which some how needs to preserve the individual freedoms and leadership that rightly so, has been acquired through all its years of existence, with hard work, determination and within the framework of its fundamental democratic values.
The author closes this book by looking at the world's future issues with respect to cyber crime and even gives us routes by which we could answers most of the urgent and pressing dilemmas of our digital epoch. Do you want to know the answer, well read the book yourself and find out what this book offers.
In conclusion, this book is readable, manages and balances many aspects of this new subject, besides it seems as a good starting point and a splendid reference, from which any student can continue to build their expertise on computer forensics and Cyber crime.
** [even the use of technology to commit crimes is well referenced by this book, I observed a photograph of Bonnie and Clyde, who used then the recently invented automobile for outsmart the police of their times, p.
31]
- This particular book by Britz, is but one more example of her commitment to detail in all of her works. Like her previous books, this book is both readable and comprehensive. It is one that I myself have adopted in my computer crime course, and I am anxiously awaiting the second edition. The chapters on the legal issues and the history of computer crime are unparalleled in the extant literature. More succinctly, the greatest strength of the book is its' sheer readibility. Designed for undergraduates, this particular text is a must read for any beginner interested in computer crime and computer investigations. Unlike other books in the field which prove to be far too advanced for novices, Britz's book allows even the most unsophisticated reader to appreciate and understand the problems associated with the investigation of computer crime, as well as recognize emerging trends in this area. Please, please, provide a second edition as soon as possible!!
- This book clearly and comprehensively complements the first edition. the new chapters on ID theft and organized crime are a welcome addition. I have been anxiously awaiting the second edition, and it DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. BRAVO!!
- This book is good at giving the beginner a glimpse into what cyber-crime is about. But such a book does not need to have so much opinion riddled in it. The best example of the opinion in which I'm speaking of is this: "Even these boards, however,may conceal nefarious activities.In fact, fringe groups abound on bulletin boards. Hackers, Satanists, anarchists, Nazis, pedophiles, child pornographers, and the like have found homes throughout the bulletin board landscape."
Grouping those groups together, as if all of them are dividing a common share of evil is unfair. The politics of the actual mess aside, one cannot reasonably group Satanists with pedophiles. And this entire paragraph of nonsense was revolved around demonizing bulletin boards. I'm sure most of us have found bulletin boards useful, either by way of communication or finding information.
So really, with little things like this creating a distraction to anyone with common sense or knowledge of computers, I can only give it 3 stars. We all know that PHPBB is not the devil, and if you read the surrounding text in context, you'll see my point. And this is not the only time.
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Written by Cynthia Cooper. By Wiley.
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5 comments about Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower.
- Cynthia Cooper was a true corporate whistleblower. She became famous, not by choice, but because of the WorldCom financial statement fraud valued at $11 billion. She was the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom, a position that was not easily obtained. She almost single-handedly created the internal audit department at WorldCom, and her book Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower details the struggle to get management to take internal audit seriously.
Things started going wrong at WorldCom very early. The company went on an acquisition spree, and the merging of many small companies, managers, and accounting systems was a disaster waiting to happen. Cynthia says that WorldCom was much better at acquiring companies than integrating them, and that is clear.
From an accounting perspective, it was next to impossible to create a properly controlled system. There were too many small systems being pieced together, and it was easy for numbers and authorizations to get lost in the shuffle. This struggle is well-documented by Cynthia, who no doubt painstakingly researched the various acquisitions in order to give such a complete history.
At times the book seems to get a little off-topic as Cynthia goes through each player's background briefly. Honestly, that information isn't really relevant to the story and, while it was probably intended to make these characters relatable human beings, it really just serves to make the book longer than necessary. It prolongs the process of getting to the real heart of the story.
I was drawn into the parts detailing the background of Bernie Ebbers and his early entrepreneurial ventures. I don't think Cynthia came right out and said that Ebbers wasn't equipped to run WorldCom, but that's exactly how it appears when you're done reading.
Where this book is so good is in detailing the fraud and how it happened. I don't think most consumers know how and where WorldCom's fraud started: all in the "line costs." You don't need an accounting background to understand the details of the fraud once Cynthia explains how things went down. Earnings were too low and management was, quite simply, looking for a place to reduce expenses.
When management realized they were paying too much for capacity that they weren't selling to customers, it became clear. Take some of those "line costs" and capitalize them, which essentially amounts to moving them off the profit and loss statement (decreasing expenses and increasing profits) and onto the balance sheet (increasing assets).
WorldCom moved those line costs into something that the executives called "prepaid capacity." The company's financials instantly looked better, and CFO Scott Sullivan found that this was an easy way to rehabilitate the financial statements each quarter. Wall Street wanted lots of growth, and that's exactly what the executives delivered by the time the fraudulent accounting entries were completed.
Yet the process of uncovering this fraud, as Cynthia and her team would soon find out, was grueling. Their investigation into the accounting shenanigans was long because the accounting entries behind this manipulation of the financial statements were complex. Hundreds of entries were made to a variety of accounts in order to confuse anyone who might later look at them. And the investigation was hard because management didn't want Cynthia and her people looking into the entries, for obvious reasons.
After the fraud became clear to Cynthia and her team, there was a long fight over whether something should or could be done about it. Scott Sullivan was determined to find an accounting rule to justify the fraudulent accounting entries. It is no surprise that there is not an accounting rule that backs up what was done, because it wasn't done with the accounting rules in mind. It was done with only Wall Street in mind.
And WorldCom's audit committee wasn't completely behind the internal auditors' investigation or results. The audit committee should be the independent group of individuals to whom an employee can voice concerns and be taken seriously. Yet Cynthia didn't seem to be given as much consideration as she should have been, and she relates this struggle nicely in the book.
The story of the investigation comes to life through Cynthia's words. I found myself drawn into the story, and I could feel myself sitting there as the internal auditors were going through entry after entry, always watching their backs because the executives didn't want them investigating.
Lots of clichés and heartwarming stories of family interactions are woven into the book. Again, these things aren't really all that relevant to the story and merely provided a distraction from the business at hand: the collapse of WorldCom.
These minor criticisms don't take away from the book as a whole. It is a detailed account of what happened, and digs much deeper into the WorldCom fraud than I ever expected. The detail behind how the fraud occurred is told in a fascinating manner, and I found myself able to picture WorldCom executives sitting around and comparing the company's financial results to the expectations of Wall Street ... and making fraudulent accounting entries to meet those expectations.
Congratulations, Cynthia, on a successful first book. And many thanks for being willing to stand up for the truth and fight to expose the WorldCom fraud.
- The book is as the title suggests - an ordinary person faced with extraordinary circumstances.
If there is one book that I would encourage every current and potential internal auditor to read it would be Cynthia's book.
It shows the challenges and risks that she and her team had to take and demonstrates why being in Internal Audit is both a huge privilege and a huge responsibility.
I had the pleasure of meeting Cynthia and spending time with her during a recent Australian book tour.
Her courage was admirable but what was more impressive is that - when it mattered most - she stood up and was counted.
How many amongst us can say the same.
- Cynthia Cooper, ex-WorldCom VP and former head of its internal auditing department, is a genuine hero. Despite her supervisors' pressure, browbeating and subterfuge, Cooper uncovered and exposed the massive WorldCom corporate fraud. When her information became public, it set off a cataclysmic chain of events: WorldCom exploded like dynamite. It filed for bankruptcy. Investors lost billions on the suddenly worthless stock. CEO Bernie Ebbers went to jail for 25 years. Other executives received prison sentences. Being a whistleblower is painfully difficult, but Cooper stuck to her guns, as she relates in this personal and sometimes even chatty saga. getAbstract recommends her instructive, inspiring book as a gripping corporate story and a cautionary tale.
- Cynthia has a way of writing that makes this book incredibly accessible. If you've ever been a college grad, accountant, auditor, mother, experienced personal hardship or been faced with tough decisions you will relate to Cythia's story and think "That could have been me."
Every auditor and corporate accountant should read this book. It should be a mandatory read for all business students.
Todd Davies
www.todddavies.com.au
- I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was well written - entertaining as well as educational. An especially interesting read for anyone in the accounting profession. Cynthia's story is terrific - congratulations on a great story.
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Posted in Computer Crime (Saturday, March 13, 2010)
Written by Dave Kleiman and Craig Wright and Jesse "James" Varsalone and Timothy Clinton and Michael Gregg. By Syngress.
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5 comments about The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49): for Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator.
- Im currently enrolled to go to school for computer forencsics, however i dont start until september i wanted a book to jumpstart me in the field before i start classes to get familiar with the subject. I wanted a study guide to teach me the basics and i couldnt have gotten a better book. The Official CHFI study guide is exactly what i wanted and needed and now im more excited then ever to start classes in the fall. Very satisfied with my purchase.
- Rarely have I seen less information in so many pages. This book is poorly organized, riddled with inaccuracies and typos, and appears hopelessly outdated in many cases. (Frequent references to floppy disks and MS-DOS make me wonder where these authors have been since, oh, 1994).
Here's a clear example of the slovenliness of the book and its editors. The summary of the "PDA, Blackberry, and iPod Forensics" chapter contains no reference to the iPod. Obviously, the iPod section was added later, and no one thought to update the summary section.
Here's another example. The "PDA Investigative Tips" section advises the would-be investigator to leave the device in the "off" state, then immediately "switch on the device". Apparently, switching the device on leaves it in the off state. The book is full of nonsense like this.
The final straw for me, though, is the beginning of Chapter 13, which purports to examine forensic tools (hardware and software). The author of this chapter openly states that the chapter is "heavily based on the assertions of the vendors who make the products." In other words, they just slapped together a bunch of sales literature, and are not providing any real-world experience with, or observations of, the products. Well, at least they're honest about their laziness and lack of experience.
I have worked in the IT field for over 25 years now, and I have read many, many technical and instructional books. This is definitely one of the worst. Buy something else if you want to learn about forensics. I recommend "File System Forensic Analysis", by Brian Carrier.
- I purchased this book in August as one of the pieces for my self training for the computer forensics discipline. I purchased it with the intent of downloading the PDF version and putting it on my Amazon Kindle so I could easily carry the book with me. I've been very satisfied with the content, especially the numerous links to related material. Mr. Kleiman brought together a group of people each of whom made a significant contribution to an excellent product.
As one reviewer has noted, there are weaknesses, especially in the proofreading and editing. This reflects on the publisher rather than the author as I'll detail below this. I can easily get past those weaknesses because this isn't a literary work.
As it turns out, the weaknesses were not caused by Mr. Kleiman or the other contributors to the book. In the process of acquiring the PDF that was to be included in the purchase price I learned that Syngress has been having problems, probably financially based, for quite some time. This resulted in delivering products that had not been fully prepared as was the case with this book. Mr. Kleiman as an author submitted in good faith a book to be proofread, edited and published. He provided content that easily justified the price of the book and expected Syngress to fine tune the product before releasing it.
Several days after purchasing the book I made my first of several attempts to contact Syngress and download my promised PDF copy. After several phone calls and emails I realized I was wasting my time. I then sent an email to David Kleiman and at about the same time I learned that Syngress had closed their doors and was being taken over by Elsevier. Mr. Kleiman and I exchanged emails for a month or so as he worked with the kind folks at Elsevier to get the PDF to me. About a week ago I received an email from Mr. Kleiman stating that the PDF would be available to me soon. Shortly after that I received an email from Elsevier telling me how to download the PDF. I did that and I now have it on my Kindle and can access it at any time as I originally planned. I find it to be an excellent resource and well worth the purchase price and the time spent reading it.
I commend David Kleiman and Elsevier for doing what's right.
- I like the book it is very good and I would recomend anyone to it. I am not really doing the 312-49 Exam, but I'm doing a online Computer Forensic COurse and this study guide really helpn me out and I get to learn more also.
- This Book is an Excellent resource and Study Guide for CHFI v3 Exam ..
i will Recommended this Book and Hacking Exposed Computer Forensic v2 , for Passing the CHFI v3 EC-Council Exam .
The Book is huge with 995 pages but its really inserting to read .
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Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities, Second Edition
Stealing Your Life: The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan
Computer Forensics: Hard Disk and Operating Systems (Ec-Council Press Series : Computer Forensics)
Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators
Incident Response and Computer Forensics, Second Edition
Digital Evidence and Computer Crime, Second Edition
Killer Cruise (Jaine Austen Mysteries)
Computer Forensics and Cyber Crime: An Introduction (2nd Edition)
Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49): for Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator
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