Did you know that…
In 2001 a gambling Web site was hacked so that in a few hours 140 gamblers won a total of $1.9 million?
The Love Bug virus cost $8.7 billion globally in lost productivity and clean up costs?
Numerous corporations have suffered severe reputational and financial consequences due to false information about them being e-mailed to thousands of recipients?
Major Web sites are being rendered inaccessible by denial of service attacks?
In 1986 there was only one recorded computer virus; now there are over 50,000 and that  number is still growing!
A Texas professor began to receive death threats because someone had ‘stolen’ his e-mail address and sent 20,000 racist messages from it?
The range of corporate networks that have been hacked into is innumerable – including  Microsoft, NASA, the Korean Atomic Research Institute and numerous crucial national  networks?
Thousands of innocent individuals have had their identities ‘stolen’ online and used   fraudulently?
Peter Lilley's book provides an eye opening account of the various risks posed by the digital age, and what can be done to secure both individual and corporate information and privacy. Risks such as:
Organized digital crime;
Cyber laundering;
Fraudulent Internet Web sites;
Hacking and cracking;
Viruses;
Web site defacement;
Unauthorized disclosure of confidential information;
Electronic cash;
Identity theft;
Hardcore and child pornography;
Information warfare;
Denial of service attacks where systems are inaccessible to legitimate users;
Invasion of digital privacy;
Government digital monitoring such as Echelon.

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