Dimensions
153 x 229 x 18mm
Finally, the real-life truth about cybercrime -- straight from two of the nation's leading Internet law enforcement investigators.
* Actual cases, actual criminals, actual victims: the real human stories readers never hear about in the media.
* Covers all types of Internet crime, including new social network and cellphone crimes - and helps readers keep themselves from being victimized.
* By investigators with 25+ years' law enforcement experience: professionals who've been honored by the FBI and other top authorities.
Everyone's heard about Internet crime, but most reports about it are shadowy, vague, or confusing. Now, two leading cybercrime investigators draw on actual cases to reveal the Internet crime wave as it really looks to law enforcement insiders. Drawing on their 25+ years' in law enforcement, they take readers behind the scenes as investigators victims, forensically examine computers, track perpetrators, and tell stories that aren't covered by the media. This book covers the full spectrum of Internet crime, and all kinds of victims: both children and adults. The authors cover the shocking growth of criminal activity on social networks and YouTube, the migration of cybercrime to cellphones, the Adam Walsh bill, the latest legislation to stiffen penalties against sex offenders online, and much more. Readers will discover the truth about criminal voyeurism, cyberstalking, and cyberbullying, and learn just how much can be found about them on the Web. The authors reveal the true profile and techniques of online child predators, offering new insights readers can use to protect their children. They cover the fast-changing realities of identity theft and other fraud... the horrors of online dating gone bad... and much more.
