ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON CYBERCRIME PREVENTION

Annotated Bibliography on Cybercrime Prevention

Miguel Diaz
The University of Texas at El Paso

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Magalla, A. (2013). Security, prevention and detection of cybercrimes. Retrieved from
https://www.academia.edu/3471542/THE_INTRODUCTION_TO_CYBERCRIME_SEC
URITY_PREVENTION_AND_DETECTION_OF_CYBERCRIME_IN_TANZANIA.
The authors purpose in this article is broken down into 4 parts. In the first part it is going
to clarify cybercrimes to the reader. In part two it will clarify the concept of cyber
security. In the third part it will explain how to prevent and detect cybercrimes.
The fourth and final part its a Personal Assessment basically in Tanzanian Laws.
(Page 4). This article will help me on my research paper because it gives me 4 parts that I
can thoroughly go over in depth so my audience dont have excessive doubts about my
topic.
Norton.com. (n.d.). Retrieved 30 March 2015, from http://us.norton.com/prevention-tips/article
The purpose of this article is to inform the audience how to better protect their
information when using it online. It will also inform you how keep cyber attackers away
by keeping your computer with the latest patches and updates. It will also go over other
steps like informing you to make sure your computer is configured securely, choose
strong passwords, install security software, and be aware that online offers that look too
good to be true usually are. This article with help me on my research paper because its a
very credible source given that its from the famous company, Norton. By using this
source its guaranteed that my information will be 100% accurate.
Schell, B & Martin, C. (Jan 1, 2004) Cybercrime: a reference handbook. Retrieved from
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=AUUERdg6b94C&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&d
q=history+of+cybercrime&ots=8COgoV0J05&sig=cMd1nACH0SvyNdyBZVHo_vwvh
m4#v=twopage&q&f=false. The authors purpose when putting together this book was to

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inform the public about the dangers of cybercrime, the history of it, and how to protect
themselves from it. It will go over case studies that analyze the beginning of cybercrime
to the present day. On the about this book page it says With biographical sketches of
many influential hackers, the reader will better understand the development of the
cybercriminal, and how many of these individuals went on to create some of the
computer industrys most useful software (http://books.google.com/books?
id=AUUERdg6b94C&dq=history+of+cybercrime&lr=&source=gbs_navlinks_s). This
book will be useful to my paper because it mentions the history of cybercrime while the
rest of my sources are mainly about how to prevent it and what other organizations are
doing to prevent it.
Thanh Dang, S (2011). The prevention of cyber terrorism and cyber war. Retrieved from
https://www.odu.edu/content/dam/odu/offices/mun/2011/disec/issue-brief-2011-theprevention-of-cyberterrorism-and-cyberwar.pdf. The purpose of this article was explain
what cyber-attacks are and how they happen. It also explains that since the internet is
virtually indispensible in our lives that the risks of cyber attacks are one of the most
alarming threats in the world. It starts to define what cyber terrorism is, and how it could
be done. It will also explain what threats the US has got from cyber terrorism, and it will
ultimately explain how we can prevent it. This article will help me on my paper because
it has great information on cyber terrorism and cyber war. It will also help me explain in
my paper how our US government is doing to try and prevent it from happening.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30526406
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