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2005        Investigating Child Exploitation and Pornography. Monique Ferraro & Eoghan Casey
                Amsterdam:Elsevier Academic Press
                (Excellent read for beginners, good review for experienced investigators. Up-to-date info)

2004        Malware:Fighting Malicious Code.  Ed Skoudis with Lenny Zletser
                New Jersey:Prentice Hall
                (An excellent, easy to read compendium on all malware threats. Best I’ve read on the topic)

2003        Black Ice:The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism. Dan Verton
                New York: McGraw-Hill
                (Sometimes a bit overstated, but a good primer on Cyber-Terrorist threat).

2003       Secrets of Computer Espionage   Joel McNamara
               Indianapolis:Wiley Publishing
               (Pretext is a bit hokey, but the book is full of solid information - a great primer on forensics)

2003        Honeypots: Tracking Hackers.  Lance Spitzner
                Boston:Addison-Wesley
                (Great book on an emerging security tactic. Easy read and informative.)

2002        Counter Hack.  Ed Skoudis
                New Jersey:Prentice Hall
                (An excellent beginner’s book on intrusion defense. Easy read but full of information.)

2002         Disappearing Cryptography (2nd Edition).  Peter Wayner
                 Amsterdam:Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
                 (Excellent text on Steganography, Watermarking, and Information Hiding)

2002        The Art of Deception.  Kevin Mitnick & William Simon
                 Indianapolis:Wiley Publishing
                 (An easy to read yet informative book on social engineering - a must read for “Red Teams”.)

2002         Sex & The Internet: A Guidebook For Clinicians.  Al Cooper (Ed.)
                 New York:Brunner-Routledge
                (A compilation of articles concerning Internet Sex. Aimed at therapists, but
                 provides some information for investigators as well).

2002         Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation. Eoghan Casey (Ed.)
                 San Diego:Academic Press
                 (A broad scope survey book written by leaders in each area. Worth reading.)

2002          Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials. W. Kruse II & J Heiser.
                  Boston:Addison Wesley
                  (Clear and fairly comprehensive “how to” book of computer forensics)

2002         Computer Forensics: Computer Crime Scene Investigation.  John Vacca
                 Hingham:Charles River Media
                 (A survey book, a bit “fluffy”, but contains some good material)

2002        Cyber Crime Investigator’s Field Guide.  Bruce Middleton
                Boca Raton:Auerbach
                (A bit dated, but covers many of the non-integrated forensic tools.)

2001        Computer Forensics and Privacy.  Michael Caloyannides.
                Boston:Artech House
                (Interesting read from the privacy perspective.  Good material & he knows his stuff.)

2001         Cybersex Exposed.  Jennifer Schneider, Robert Weiss.
                 Center City:Hazelden
                 (Covers diffentiation between use of and addicition to cybersex)

2001         Demystifying Virtual Private Networks.  Michael Busby
                 Plano:Wordware Publishing
                 (Straight forward and clear text about VPN. Easy read.)

2001          Incident Response.  Kevin Mandia & Chris Prosise
                  New York: Osborne/McGraw Hill
                  (Excellent review of computer forensics methods)

2001         Hack Attacks Revealed.  John Chirillo
                 New York:John Wiley & Sons.
                 (Good technical manual on hacking and defenses. Includes CD ROM with tools)

2001       Hacking Exposed, 2nd Edition.  J. Scambray, S. McClure, & G. Kurtz
               New York:John Wiley & Sons.
               (A classic text-book re-issued and updated.  Volumes of information).

2001       Windows 2000 Registry: Little Black Book (2nd Edition).  Nathan Wallace &
               Anthony Sequeria  Scottsdale:Coriolis Technology Press
               (A must have read on Windows 2000 registry).

1999       Windows 98 Registry.  John Worman.
               Chicago:MIS Press
               (Excellent resource on Windows 98 registry).

1996       Windows 95 Registry.  John Worman.
               Chicago:MIS Press
               (Excellent resource on Windows 95 registry).

2001      Exam Prep A+.  S. Reeves, K. Reeves, S. Weese, & C. Geyer
              Scottsdale:Coriolis Technology Press
              (Great technical review of hardware issues)

2000     Bigelow’s Troubleshooting, Maintaining & Repairing PCs (4th Ed.)
             Stephen Bigelow.  New York:Osborne/McGraw Hill
             (Another great resource on hardware and hardware issues).

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