- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber; New edition edition (19 May 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571168132
- ISBN-13: 978-0571168132
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 865,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Data crime" is the technological scourge of the 1990s: eight million of the world's 50 million PCs will be infected with computer viruses by 1993; teenage hackers using home computers have already broken into the "secure" computer systems at the Pentagon, NASA, and NATO; computer fraud is estimated to cost US and UK banks and companies two billion pounds every year - and 85% of computer fraud isn't even reported. As our society becomes increasingly dependent on computers, so we become ever more vulnerable to the misuse of technology, whether for fraud, subversion, the theft of sensitive information or sinister military and espionage operations. This book looks at all aspects of data crime worldwide. It investigates the origins of viruses, and tells the stories of the malicious Eastern European virus writers - including "the Dark Avenger", whose destructive programs broke through House of Commons' security in October 1990.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i read this book soon after it was published - having previously seen excerpts in GQ magazine - and whizzed through it with great excitement. the world of computers has moved on rapidly since then, but this account of the pioneers - good guys and bad alike - remains vividly impressed on my mind. buy it.
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Excellent early book on computer related crime.
5 Nov 1998
Format:Paperback
I read this book when it first came out in 1993, and it impressed me as I hadn't read a book like it before. Since, however there has been a flood of books on this subject, some a lot better, some only worth pulping.
Although not very technically indepth, and at points rather vague about times and places, the general flow is good, with coverage from the early days of phreaking (including discussion about Cap'n Crunch, Jobs and Wozniak amongst others), through to the flavour of the day - Virii. It even discusses the Internet Worm and other "early" Internet hacks.
All in all a decent read, if not 100% technically adept.
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