Encyclopedia of Cybercrime

by McQuade, Samuel C., III

• ISBN13: 9780313339745
• ISBN10: 0313339740
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group

Summary

There are today no more compelling sets of crime and security threats facing nations, communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals than those encompassed by cybercrime. For over fifty years crime enabled by computing and telecommunications technologies have increasingly threatened societies as they have become reliant on information systems for sustaining modernized living. Cybercrime is not a new phenomenon, rather an evolving one with respect to adoption of information technology (IT) for abusive and criminal purposes. Further, by virtue of the myriad ways in which IT is abused, it represents a technological shift in the nature of crime rather than a new form of criminal behavior. Understanding the subject, then, is imperative to combatting it and to addressing it at various levels.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chronology of Selected

Cybercrime-Related

Events

Alphabetical

List of Entries

The Encyclopedia

Resource Guide

About the Editor and Contributors

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