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By Jill Yesko, University Relations
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Posted:9-18-07
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Would you know if your computer was high jacked by hackers and turned into a zombie that could be used to send out viruses, spam and other unwanted information?
If you don’t, you’re not alone. As technology continues to advance, so do the ways that illicit computer hackers and legal data marketing companies have for ferreting out personal information from home computers.
In response to the need for highly detailed information about computer security and the ethics related to issues such as privacy, identity theft, computer law, informed consent and cyber crimes, Dr. Hamid Nemati, associate professor of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Bryan School of Business and Economics at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro has edited “Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications,” a 3,987 page, six-volume work published by Information Science Reference.
The work contains more than 300 chapters with entries from more than 750 international experts in fields ranging from law to computer science. Topics covered include cyber crime, forensic computing, ethical standards and confidentiality.
“We are the first generation of humans where the capabilities of the technologies that support our information processing activities are truly revolutionary and far exceed those of our forefathers,” said Nemati. “Although this technological revolution has brought us closer and has made our lives easier and more productive, paradoxically, it has also made us more capable of harming one and other and more vulnerable to be harmed by each other.”
Nemati is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Information Security and editor-in-chief of the Advances in Information Security and Privacy book series. He received a PhD from the University of Georgia and an MBA from the University of Massachusetts.
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