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12 septembre 2013

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EAN13

9781406268522

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

12 Mo

When Ben discovers that his Facebook page has been changed, he is worried. Then someone sends emails from his account! Have his personal and work files been hacked? This book looks at the topics of computer science and information and communications technology to explain how Ben's laptop and his company's network have been compromised, and how the systems administrator, network manager, and police investigators can track down the person carrying out the cyber attack.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

12 septembre 2013

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781406268522

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

12 Mo

ICT

A N AT O M Y O F A N I N V E S T I G AT I O N

Computer Science and IT: INVESTIGATINGA CYBER ATTACK

Anne Rooney

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Edited by Andrew Farrow, Adam Miller, and Adrian Vigliano Designed by Richard Parker Original illustrations © HL Studios Illustrated by James Stayte (pages 4–7); HL Studios Picture research by Ruth Blair Production by Sophia Argyris Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by CTPS

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Rooney, Anne Computer science and IT: investigating a cyber attack. – (Anatomy of an investigation)

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AcknowledgementsWe would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs:Alamy pp. 16 (© Ian Shaw), 33 (© Marmaduke St. John), 43 (© Nikita Buida), 46 (© aberCPC); Corbis pp. 11 (© DB Apple/ dpa), 27 (© Corbis), 42 (© Ramin Talaie); Getty Images pp. 8 (Florence Delva), 19 (William Thomas Cain), 22 (ColorBlind Images), 25 (Jiji Press/AFP), 37 (Chris Jackson), 39 (Betsie Van der Meer), 40 (Alan Weller/ Bloomberg); Shutterstock pp. 9 (© Angela Waye), 12 (© Dmitry Kalinovsky), 14 (© Elena Elisseeva), 15(© Dmitriy Shironosov), 17 (© Ermolaev Alexander), 21 (© Arno van Dulmen), 34 (© dwphotos), 35 (© Franz Pfluegl), 38 (© YanLev); Superstock pp. 13 (Ambient Images Inc.), 36 (imagebroker.net).

We would like to thank Mark Clarkson for his invaluable help in the preparation of this book.

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Contents

Signs of trouble...................................................................... 4

Attack! ................................................................................... 8

Keeping information safe.....................................................14

Confirming the attack .......................................................... 20

Assessing the damage.......................................................... 26

Forensic computing.............................................................. 36

A secure future..................................................................... 44

Investigation: how to be anonymous .................................... 48

Timeline ............................................................................... 50

Glossary ............................................................................... 52

Find out more....................................................................... 54

Index .................................................................................... 56

Some words are printed in bold,like this. You can find out what they mean by looking in the glossary on page 52.

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After a long day at work, Ben relaxes with his laptop and a pizza. But it is not going to be the peaceful evening he had hoped for...

What’s this? I didn’t put that on my page!

Last night  when the guys were here  where was my laptop?Is this a joke?

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