By Seymour Goodman, Abraham Sofaer, Hoover Institution Press, August 2001

The growing threat of worldwide cyber crime.

The worldwide information infrastructure is today increasingly under attack by cyber criminals and terrorists—and the number, cost, and sophistication of the attacks are increasing at alarming rates. With annual damage around the world now measured in billions of U.S. dollars, these attacks threaten the substantial and ever-growing reliance of commerce, governments, and the public upon the new technology to conduct business, carry messages, and process information.

In December 1999, more than forty members of government, industry, and academia assembled at the Hoover Institution to discuss this problem and explore possible countermeasures.

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Book Description:

The Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism summarizes the conference papers and exchanges, addressing pertinent issues in chapters that include a review of the legal initiatives undertaken around the world to combat cyber crime, an exploration of the threat to civil aviation, analysis of the constitutional, legal, economic, and ethical constraints on use of technology to control cyber crime, a discussion of the ways we can achieve security objectives through international cooperation, and more. Much has been said about the threat posed by worldwide cyber crime, but little has been done to protect against it. A transnational response sufficient to meet this challenge is an immediate and compelling necessity—and this book is a critical first step in that direction.

Book Contents (PDF):

• Foreword
• Contributing Authors/Editors
• Website Notice
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1: Cyber Crime and Security: The Transnational Dimension
• Chapter 2: International Responses to Cyber Crime
• Chapter 3: I. International Cooperation to Protect Civil Aviation Against Cyber Crime and Terrorism
• II. Cyber Terrorism and Civil Aviation
• III. Past as Prologue: International Aviation Security Treaties as Precedents for International Cooperation Against Cyber Terrorism and Cyber Crimes
• Chapter 4: Current and Future Technical Capabilities
• Chapter 5: Civil Liberties and Security in Cyberspace
• Chapter 6: Toward an International Convention on Cyber Security
• Draft International Convention to Enhance Protection from Cyber Crime and Terrorism
• Appendix 1: December 1999 Conference Agenda
• Appendix 2: December 1999 Conference Participants
• Index

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