Approaching zero: Data crime and the computer underworld
Bryan Clough, Paul Mungo · 1992
Data is technological scourge of 1990s: eight million of world's 50 million PCs will be infected with computer viruses by 1993; teenage hackers using home computers have already broken into secure computer systems at Pentagon, NASA, and NATO; computer fraud is estimated to cost US and UK banks and companies two billion pounds every year - and 85% of computer fraud isn't even reported. As our society becomes increasingly dependent on computers, so we become ever more vulnerable to misuse of technology, whether for fraud, subversion, theft of sensitive information or sinister military and espionage operations. This book looks at all aspects of data crime worldwide. It investigates origins of viruses, and tells stories Of malicious Eastern European virus writers - including the Dark Avenger, whose destructive programs broke through House of Commons' security in October 1990.