Cyber Crime: Vandalising the Information Society Book

It's hard to argue that 20th-century law-enforcement authorities had any idea how to deal with computer-assisted crime. In Cybercrime: Vandalizing the Information Society, British computer-security expert Steven Furnell gives a thorough overview, hoping to help the sheriffs of the new frontier by informing them of the means and motivations of their prey. As a guide to mainstream conceptions of hacking, viral code, and e-fraud, the book is invaluable both for the authorities it targets and the anti-authoritarians who want to minimise both cyber-harm and electronic oppression. Furnell makes some excellent points, well worth repeating as they're often ignored: computer security is still mostly laughable, most bad-guy hackers are less motivated by greed than other crooks and traditional law-enforcement techniques are conspicuously irrelevant. For its topic, Cybercrime is comparatively calm and rational--just what we need to beat down the hype. --Rob LightnerRead More