Internet safety / edited by Richard Joseph Stein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stein, Richard Joseph.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 2.

The reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Security measures.

Internet.

Internet--Safety measures.

Computer crimes.

Internet--Political aspects.

Computers and families.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : H. W. Wilson Company, 2009.

Contents:

Importance of cybersecurity increases as online attacks get more dangerous / Daniel Fowler

Newly nasty / The Economist

Browsers: the new threat landscape / Andrew Garcia

WEB 2.0 security / Marji McClure

Deleting your digital past

for good / Tracy Mayor

Dead teen's mother: misdemeanor convictions a "stepping stone" in cyberbullying case / Kim Zetter

Cyberspace threats and vulnerabilities, excerpted from The national strategy to secure cyberspace / U.S. Department of Homeland Security

National policy and guiding principles, excerpted from The national strategy to secure cyberspace / U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Malware, spyware, spamware, beware / Yan Barcelo

Beware the digital zombies / John Markoff

Bugging broadband / Charles Arthur

A slice of apple / Seth Colaner

Online identity theft / Brigitte Acoca

Questions about online identity / Reid Goldsborough

Guard yourself against identity theft on social networks / Pamela Yip

Swiped, stolen and sold / The New York Times

Startup plans to solve online identity theft, but does anyone care? / Alexander Gelfand

Kids put online safety first / Marianne McGee

When teens turn cyberbullies / Paris S. Strom and Robert D. Strom

Patrolling Web 2.0 / Robert Losinski

Sex predator / Asra Q. Nomani

Survey finds teens solicit students more than adult predators / School Violence Alert

Lori Drew is a meanie / Emily Bazelon

Decoding MySpace / Michelle Andrews

Online photos put hazing in the spotlight / Stacy A. Teicher

The new e-spionage threat / Brian Grow, Keith Epstein, and Chi-Chu Tschang

When do online attacks cross the line into cyberwar? / Alex Kingsbury

Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia / Ian Traynor

It's cyberwar! / Michael Petrou

The flaw at the heart of the Internet / Erica Naone

Cybercriminals can't get away with it like they used to / Jon Swartz

Cyber-attack operations near / David A. Fulghum.

Notes:

"Additional periodical articles with abstracts": p. [168]-173.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-167) and index.

ISBN:

9780824210892

0824210891

OCLC:

301889903