Cyber Crime

Life in the twenty-first century makes ever-increasing use of computers and the Internet. Together these technological achievements have created cyberspace, a realm of almost infinite possibilities. Unfortunately, one of those possibilities is crime. Cybercrime examines the world of computer crimes, from hacking to digital piracy to cyberterrorism. After tracing computer hacking to its roots in the colorful phone-phreaking subculture of the 1960s, Cybercrime surveys the damage caused around the world by some of the most notorious hackers and their creations, viruses and worms. A close-up look at computer forensics-the tools and techniques that investigators and law enforcers use in cases of computer crime-includes a checklist of steps for computer users seeking protection from cybercrime.