Hunting Britain's worst computer criminals.
Neil Barrett is one of the UK's leading experts on computer crime. An ex-hacker himself, he has been brought in to advise the police on a number of high profile cases, and as a security consultant has helped some of the world's largest companies protect themselves from high-tech attack.
In this book, he takes the reader into the dimly-lit world of the computer criminal and guides us through some of the high profile cases he has worked on - from Gary Glitter's conviction as a paedophile through cases of hacking and fraud to rape and, even murder.
Nearly every week the headlines of national newspapers shout allegations about the latest credit card fraud, internet paedophile, or major corporation whose computers have been hacked. But what people may not realise is that the nature of computer crime is changing.
In the same way that all of us use computers increasingly in our business and personal lives, so too are criminals using computers, not just to commit high-tech offences, but to plan, research and co-ordinate a wide variety of crimes. The role computers play in crime, and in particular the detection and prosecution of crime has never as been as significant as it is today.
In a gripping true-life detective story Neil Barrett guides us into a world where the seemingly innocuous computer screen can provide a window into the mind of even the most hardened criminal. It is a world where hackers pit their wits, man to man, with the police experts. It is the cutting edge of modern crime and a world where the digital detective is the latest and best weapon in the police arsenal.
