Cyber Alert: How the World Is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime [Paperback]

Peter Warren (Author), Michael Streeter (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Through profiles of individual victims and companies, this exploration of cyber crime identifies the commonly used criminal methods, such as viruses, spam, and junk e-mail, and the legal rights of users against this increasingly international phenomenon. Old-fashioned criminals are waking up to the new opportunities and exponential payback of internet crime, adapting schemes like blackmail and money laundering to this vast new landscape. To better expose the activity of cyber felons who cost consumers in the United States about $50 billion a year, this guide also gives preventative advice to help the not-so-savvy computer users protect themselves from financial and identity theft on the Internet.

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About the Author

Peter Warren is an expert on computer security issues and writes for The Sunday Times of London and Computer Weekly. Michael Streeter is a freelance journalist and correspondent.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Vision (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904132626
• ISBN-13: 978-1904132622
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,812,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Berglund Center for Internet Studies Review by Jeffrey Barlow, April 26, 2011

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This review is from: Cyber Alert: How the World Is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime (Paperback)

Cyber Alert is at first glance a very familiar sort of book, one that screams to computer users "Be afraid! Be very afraid"! Lest the title itself not be sufficient warning of the many forms of doom to which our computers will soon introduce us, the cover graphic, a colorful picture of a computer in a ominously lighted room, the screen of which reads "How the World is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime" clues in even the clueless. The work, however, has virtues that transcend the worked-out genre of which it is a part...

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4.0 out of 5 stars is it too good to be true?, August 5, 2005

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This review is from: Cyber Alert: How the World Is Under Attack from a New Form of Crime (Paperback)

Maybe the best aspect of Warren's book are the numerous examples it cites of actual fraud mail. He writes for a reader who is a novice with computers. It is such a readership that is most vulnerable to all sorts of electronic fraud attempts. The good news from the book is that you do not have to be some sort of computer guru to avoid falling for electronic scams.

Warren describes what might arrive in your email. Purporting to be from a relative of a [dead] important person, offering you a commission of millions of dollars if you will help him or her. There are other types of come-ons in your mail. All seeming too good to be true. This is where the book's education is useful. Basically, if it is too good to be true, that tells you something.