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Overview
Free phone calls, virtual espionage, and the cyber Apocalypse. Cybercrime: A Reference Hanbook documents the history of computer hacking, and provides accessible information everyone should know.Synopsis
This reference reviews the history of cybercrime in the United States and elsewhere, lists a chronology of major events in the development of computing and internet technologies, and provides biographical sketches of 20 people who have worked on either side of the hacker wars. The authors, who teach at the Ontario Institute of Technology, also summarize methods commonly used to break into computer systems, countermeasures designed to deter such attacks, and some issues surrounding database, operating system, and network security. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR