Michael A. Caloyannides
ISBN: 0-471-48657-4
Paper
384 pages
April 2002

Are you aware of every track, trail, and trace you leave behind every time you use your PC? Are you sure that you really deleted that confidential information from your hard drive. If not - read this. This book describes the ways in which computer and online privacy can be compromised and gives practical guidance on how to prevent private information from being accessible or retrievable by outside parties or agencies.

This book covers:

• The types of information which are retrievable from a computer and how to prevent leaving sensitive data behind
• How privacy is compromised on the internet (email, web browsing, profiling) and how to combat it
• Full technical details on software for doing computer forensics, defeating computer forensics, encryption, steganography, keystroke capture and detecting keystroke capture