The Best Damn Cybercrime and Forensics Book Period

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 1000 pages
• Published by: Syngress October 15, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1597492280
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1597492287
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches
• Weighs: 3.2 pounds

Reader Reviews
This book has a lot of good info in it, but the editing was spotty at best, and all too often downright terrible. Also, the first page of the book says that when you register it, you can "access our solutions@syngress.com Web pages. There you may find an assortmnet of valueadded features such as free e-books related to the topic of this book." Maybe what they mean by, "...you may find..." is that you MIGHT find those things. In this case, I found no such thing. While I wouldn't say the book was a waste of money or time, some of the editing was so bad I feel compelled to provide specific examples: 1) p. 260: It says "Psychical Memory" where it should say "Physical Memory" -OK, the laugh I got thereby made this mistake more enjoyable than irritating. 2) p. 377: "It will read image files created with ICS, SafeBack, and forensic software "forensic software" as meant? and uncompressed images created with Ghost..." -Looks like somebody's interim notes were left in the document, or...? 3) P. 378: Exercise 4.3 is mentioned, but I could not find an Exercise 4.3 in that chapter. 4) p. 509: "The boot directory contains a static foals knitted by the boot loader." -What in the world are "foals knitted"? Baby horses created by a needleworker? Did they mean "files needed"? Was somebody typing this from a recording made by an author with a strong southern accent, or what? 5) p. 509: "The etc directory contains consideration files which are local to the machine. Certain larger packages such as X11 have their own subdirectories with consideration files under /etc." -I've never heard of "consideration" files, and they are mentioned TWICE! Presumably they mean "configuration" files, or...? In view of the foregoing, I would have to say the book does not live up to its chest-thumping title. It's only mediocre, and so has no just cause to crow like that, claiming superiority over all of the other CF books. Comment | | (Report this)