- Paperback: 750 pages
- Publisher: Charles River Media; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1584503890
- ISBN-13: 978-1584503897
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 18.6 x 4.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 959,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The mightiest fortresses in the world can fail, and when that happens all you can do is figure out what went wrong, what damage was done, and by whom. If the castle was located in the right kind of kingdom--to take a metaphor too far--you can hope to prosecute the perpetrator. Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation explains how to gather evidence of computer crimes in such a way that it will be more likely to lead to a conviction in a criminal court. It's an interesting legal area--after all, it's almost always you, and not any law enforcement agency, doing the surveillance and evidence gathering on your computer systems--and John Vacca has done a fair bit of research. This book will probably expand your thinking on the subject of information security.
On the other hand, though Vacca gives good general advice (don't lose volatile information by shutting a compromised machine down mid-attack; do be prepared to translate memory dumps into jury-readable form), he sometimes meanders into generalisations and irrelevancies. It's certainly scary that terrorists distribute their plans via public Web sites, but that fact is hardly helpful to someone wanting to prosecute the guy who vandalised the corporate Web site. Similarly interesting, but practically irrelevant to most of us, are discussions of high-energy radio frequency (HERF) and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons that can knock out information systems from a distance. More focus on evidence collection in organisational computing environments would make this book useful, rather than just generally informative. --David Wall (Amazon.com)
Topics covered: how to gather evidence of a hack attack after the fact, and a lot of general-interest information on the state of crime and law-enforcement in computer technology. Coverage is almost all general in nature, dealing with how to formulate a strategy and deal with events without getting into details of any operating system or computing environment. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Using personal computers as their weapons, hackers and criminals (some only 11 years old) have attacked the Internet, government agencies, financial companies, small businesses, and the credit card accounts of unsuspecting individuals. This completely updated book/CD package provides a complete overview of computer forensics from information security issues to "crime scene investigation," seizure of data, determining the "fingerprints" of the crime, and tracking down the criminals. The book's companion CD-ROM contains demos of the latest computer forensics software. Numerous exercises, case studies, and vignettes of actual crimes enhance the topics under discussion, and provide the reader with solutions to computer crime in the real world.
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Format:Paperback
This author is the undoubted master of waffle. If ever i wasted money on a book this was the one. After reading through very many pages i asked myself what i had learned. The answer was nothing.
I don't know about the author's other books but on the strength of this one I won't bother trying.
I don't know about the author's other books but on the strength of this one I won't bother trying.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Disappointed by the content
18 July 2002
Format:Paperback
When I started this book I figured it would be on forensic analysis, data recovery and court presentation. The subject matter, however, tends to be more in tune with scare tactics, information warfare and a review of the author's previous work. The cd of "forensic software" doesn't match the content either. Several of the packages on the cd are interesting, useful and even well known, however the book doesn't go into detail regarding their use. In my opinion, I would recommend the book by Heiser and Kruse as a better choice for those looking for a complete book on the subject of computer forensics.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Huge Disappointment: Little-to-No Technical Content
17 July 2002
Format:Paperback
The first 250 or so pages provide a decent (at best) high-level description of Computer Forensics, but the next 300 pages have little to do with computer crime investigations. It seems as if this book should really be two books: the first book would provide a good overview of computer forensics for those who are not very technical, and the second book (larger book) would be on Information Warfare. If you are looking for a decent book on forensic computing, with a lot of technical meat, this is NOT your book.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Okay but I was disappointed
13 Jan 2007
Format:Paperback
I was real excited when I saw this book that looked like the bible of computer forensics and it came with a DVD. The cost of 50 dollars made it expensive but with DVD that I hope would have video that I can watch.
THe book is okay in giving a general idea of computer forensics. It was not very specific in what to do. It has an interactive part in which it give you general answer too not very thorough.
Then, it goes on a tangent about warfare and cyber terrorism. It leaves the forensics behind. And the book goes over 700 pages.
The DVd is intro to some fornesics software, I was hoping it had video
to show people like me that are visual and can learn more this way.
So, the book is okay but I would check others that are more specific and give more thorough details about computer forensics.
THe book is okay in giving a general idea of computer forensics. It was not very specific in what to do. It has an interactive part in which it give you general answer too not very thorough.
Then, it goes on a tangent about warfare and cyber terrorism. It leaves the forensics behind. And the book goes over 700 pages.
The DVd is intro to some fornesics software, I was hoping it had video
to show people like me that are visual and can learn more this way.
So, the book is okay but I would check others that are more specific and give more thorough details about computer forensics.
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