The FBI Investigates Cyber Crime
Here is another link to some testimony: Cyber Crime On Social Networking Sites
My Facebook Account was hacked and a "message" sent out to my friends trying to lure them to a website with the promise of a photo of them. I had to email everyone and warn them not to visit. This was embarrassing and I was even "defriended" by a few. It also took up a lot of my time, and I had to change not only my Facebook password but all my email passwords. Major pain in the ass, quite frankly. These hacks seem to have died out a bit lately. Maybe Facebook has beefed up their security.
A manuscript that I'm currently trying to sell has facial recognition software playing a big part. I made "my" software ahead of the curve in that it can recognize many faces at one time. The software agents I devised for The Shadow Warriors have probably come to pass. What do you think? Are software agents alive and well and cruising through networks and running amoke?
The Shadow Warriors is a genre-busting novel of suspense, incorporating international locales (Singapore, Hong Kong, Boston, Brussels and Germany), technology (software agents) and the derring-do at a German university. The story is framed by an outbreak of information warfare. Emma Lee Davis, a web security consultant, must dredge up a painful summer in her past to discover a means to end the info-war that has disrupted civilization.
