No comments about Waive Goodbye to Liability.(penetration testing): An article from: Security Management.

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1 comments about Social Engineering 101. (Tech Forum).: An article from: Strategic Finance.

1. Not much more here than you would find in a high school book review of Kevin Mitnicks work. You won't find anything compelling, just a brief overview. Skip the ebook and do as the author suggests; put in a web search for "social engineering" and you will certainly get more out of that.

No comments about Real world problems of virtual crime.: An article from: Yale Journal of Law & Technology.

No comments about At Issue Series - Does the Internet Increase the Risk of Crime? (hardcover edition) (At Issue Series).

5 comments about Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption.

1. This book is a must read for "just the facts" about the seedier side of the internet. As a "netcop" for a large ISP, I have recommended it to several people. It give the nuts and bolts of how things like viruses, denial of sercvice attacks, cyberstalking, and email fraud work with a friendly, no-jargon style. From everything on how to protect your privacy while online, to why spam is a bad thing, this book covers all the bases. Unlike many books on the same topic, this one does not go into the details of how to do these deeds- just how to keep them from happening to you.

   I especially recommend the section on how to keep your kids safe on the net... this book is a one-stop course to common sense on the internet.




2. Speaking as someone who once spent three months behind bars for computer hacking, I can vouch for the authenticity of this book. It should scare you right out of your socks.

   And it's not the technical details that should scare you, though there's enough of that. It's the simple "social engineering" that can cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars. A good hacker doesn't need to touch a computer - he just picks his target, gains a bit of information and uses others to do the dirty work, all unsuspecting. By the time you work out you are under attack, someone has taken out a second mortgage on your home, cashed in your life insurance, raided your credit cards and had a hell of a good time at your expense.

   Here are case studies to demonstrate it. people driven to bankruptcy, despair and suicide.

   Get a firewall on your computer right NOW. And do all the other things this book advises.

   Otherwise you are a mug.

   Don't figure it won't happen to you - if you are at all active in cyberspace, then you are leaving footprints behind that can be picked up and exploited by a hacker looking for his next target.

   Buy this book - it will be the best handful of dollars you ever spent.




3. This book is a good explanation of hackers of all varieties, their techniques, and what ordinary people and businesses can do to protect against them. In a usually-even-tempered voice, Mr. Schwartau tackles common misconceptions and explains what hackers really are and what threats we should really be worrying about. He has had a reputation of being a Chicken Little with regard to hacking, but at least a respected Chicken Little. None of this is real knock-your-socks-off stuff. But it's good in an enjoyable sort of a way.



4. This is quite possibly the worse book I ever read on the subject. The author has a tendency to make unqualified statements with no supportive evidence. He thinks Hong Kong is an ".... emerging country around the Far East, having problems with software piracy. (Where have you been for the last 50 yrs ? Australia has a software piracy rates on par to Hong Kong. The highest is in Thailand and Vietnam.) He thinks when you start a web browser, and a small program running in the background, it is written in a "new" computer language called JAVA. Not knowing that JavaScirpt and JAVA has nothing in common, but share a name. He is not sure whether to called hacker as "immature bastards" with no real skills, or to take the high road and suggest that talented individuals like them should be nutured, and jail sentences should be reserved for murderers - so he did both.
   The author has the hallmark of a typical sales/marketing/management type, knowing all the buzz words: risk management, business contingency plan, ..etc. CEO loves it, but can he tell the different between PPTP and IPSec ? and why should you use one and not the other ? I started questioning his credential after reading three chapters. If you want a better introduction to the subject, try Personal Firewalls by Lisa Yeo, Firewalls and Internet Security by Cheswick and Bellovin or Hacker's Challenge by Schiffman. Luckily, I only paid $4 for this paper weight.



5. The book's good, a bit outdated, not really ment for people who don't know too much about computers, but gives you a really good simple cover on (Insert title here).

1 comments about Masters of Deception: The Worldwide White-Collar Crime Crisis and Ways to Protect Yourself.

1. This book is little more than a brief summary of newspaper clippings. The author (Louis Mizell) achieves the same ends as the crooks about whom he writes. The unfortunate person who purchases this book believing that it may contain useful information about white collar crime or solid strategies to combat white collar crime becomes a victim of the author's own deception.

No comments about Intelligence and Security Informatics: IEEE ISI 2008 International Workshops: PAISI, PACCF and SOCO 2008, Taipei, Taiwan, June 17, 2008, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).