Cybercrime
eBook - PDF

Cybercrime

Criminal Threats from Cyberspace

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Cybercrime

Criminal Threats from Cyberspace

About this book

This fascinating and timely book traces the emergence and evolution of cybercrime as an increasingly intransigent threat to society. Cybercrime: Criminal Threats from Cyberspace is intended to explain two things: what cybercrime is and why the average citizen should care about it. To accomplish that task, the book offers an overview of cybercrime and an in-depth discussion of the legal and policy issues surrounding it. Enhancing her narrative with real-life stories, author Susan W. Brenner traces the rise of cybercrime from mainframe computer hacking in the 1950s to the organized, professional, and often transnational cybercrime that has become the norm in the 21st century. She explains the many different types of computer-facilitated crime, including identity theft, stalking, extortion, and the use of viruses and worms to damage computers, and outlines and analyzes the challenges cybercrime poses for law enforcement officers at the national and international levels. Finally, she considers the inherent tension between improving law enforcement's ability to pursue cybercriminals and protecting the privacy of U.S. citizens.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780313365461
eBook ISBN
9780313365478
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Series Foreword
  6. Chapter 1. Twenty-First Century Twilight Zone: Stalking a Town
  7. Chapter 2. From Mainframes to Metaverse: The Origins and Evolution of Cybercrime
  8. Chapter 3. Three Categories of Cybercrime
  9. Chapter 4. Target Cybercrimes: Hacking, Malware, and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
  10. Chapter 5. Tool Cybercrimes: Fraud, Harassment . . .Murder?
  11. Chapter 6. Cyber-CSI: Computer Crime Scene
  12. Chapter 7. Beyond War Games: Who Are the Cybercriminals?
  13. Chapter 8. Cyber-Law and Order: Investigating and Prosecuting Cybercrime
  14. Chapter 9. U.S. Law Enforcement: Agencies and Challenges
  15. Chapter 10. Global Law Enforcement: Few Agencies, Even More Challenges
  16. Chapter 11. Privacy versus Security: Which Trumps?
  17. Chapter 12. New Ways to Fight Cybercrime
  18. Notes
  19. Index