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cover image COMPUTER CRIME : A CRIMEFIGHTER'S HANDBOOK

David J. ICOVE, 1949-
is a 19-year career law enforcement officer who is presently employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Police-Public Safety Service, Risk and Emergency Management Division. Prior to coming to TVA in 1993, he served nine years as an instructor in the Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. A coauthor of several textbooks on law enforcement and security-related subjects, Dr.Icove holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and a Ph.D in engineering science and mechanics from the University of Tennessee, and a B.S. in fire protection engineering from the University of Maryland. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Tennessee and Virginia.

Karl A. SEGER, 1940-
is an organizational psychologist and president of Associated Corporate Consultants, Inc., a firm he founded in 1973. He has provided security consulting services across the United States, Central America, and in Europe to multinational corporations, all branches of the U.S. military, the Department of Justice (FBI), the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy. He conducts computer crime and security courses in the U.S. and in Germany and serves as the computer security instructor for the American Society for Industrial Security Assets Protection II Course. Dr. Seger is also the author of the Antiterrorism Handbook (Presidio Press, 1990).

William R. VONSTORCH
is currently the head of the Foreign Counterintelligence Automated Data Processing Operations for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He has served more than 20 years in the United States Navy and Naval Reserves, specializing in areas of military intelligence and physical and personnel security. During the last 12 years his experience has been in the areas of counterintelligence, law enforcement, antiterrorism, computer systems, and computer security. Bill also owns and operates a part-time computer consulting firm that specializes in various types of information management service. He co-developed the Computer-Assisted Security and Investigation Analysis Tool for use by the FBI to maintain information on malicious software, security-related incident information, critical elements of federal legislation, and vulnerabilities of computer systems, hardware, and software. He resides in Maryland.

(Consulting Editor Eugene H. SPAFFORD)
is on the faculty of the Department of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. He is the founder and director of the Computer Operations, Audit, and Security Technology (COAST) Laboratory at Purdue and is also associated with the Software Engineering Research Center (SERC) there. Professor Spafford is an active researcher in the areas of software testing and debugging, applied security, and professional computing issues. He was a participant in the effort to bring the Internet worm under control; his published analyses of that incident are considered the definitive explanations. He is the coauthor of Practical UNIX Security (O'Reilly & Associates, second edition, 1995) and has also coauthored a widely praised book on computer viruses. He supervised the development of the first COPS and Tripwire security audit software packages, and he has been a frequently invited speaker at computer ethics and computer security events around the world. He is on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is active in many professional societies, including ACM, Usenix, IEEE (as a Senior Member), and the IEEE Computer Society. He is involved with several working groups with IFIP Technical Committee 11 on Security and Protection in Information Processing Systems.

Publisher : O'Reilly & Associates - Sebastopol, CA

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DESCRIPTION :

Terrorist attacks on computer centers, electronic fraud on international funds transfer networks, viruses and worms in our software, corporate espionage on business networks, and crackers breaking into systems on the Internet...Computer criminals are becoming ever more technically sophisticated, and it's an increasing challenge to keep up with their methods.

Computer Crime: A Crimefighter's Handbook is for anyone who needs to know what today's computer crimes look like, how to prevent them, and how to detect, investigate, and prosecute them if they do occur. It contains basic computer security information as well as guidelines for investigators, law enforcement, and computer system managers and administrators.

CONTENTS :

Part I of the book contains a discussion of computer crimes, the computer criminal, and computer crime laws. It describes the various categories of computer crimes and profiles the computer criminal (using techniques developed for the FBI and other law enforcement agencies).
Part II outlines the the risks to computer systems and personnel, operational, physical, and communications measures that can be taken to prevent computer crimes.
Part III discusses how to plan for, investigate, and prosecute computer crimes, ranging from the supplies needed for criminal investigation, to the detection and audit tools used in investigation, to the presentation of evidence to a jury.
Part IV of the book contains a compendium of the computer-related U.S. federal statutes and all of the statutes of the individual states, as well as representative international laws.
Part V contains a resource summary, detailed papers on computer crime, and a sample search warrant for a computer crime.

"Computer security"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-357) and index.

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