Coming to Terms with Computer Crime Computer Crime: A Crimefighter's Handbook David Icove, Karl Seger, and William VonStorch O'Reilly and Associates Inc., $24.95; 800-998-9938 ISBN: 1-56592-086-4. By Don Willmot If you tend to be a paranoid type of person, Computer Crime: A Crimefighter's Handbook will keep vou up at night pondering the incredible number of computer crimes that people can commit and the difficulties involved in stopping them. The book, split into sections that deal with defining computer crimes. preventing them, and handling them, is loaded with fascinating facts. When you stop to think about it. the number of different types of crime is alarming: sabotage. revenge, vandalism, theft, eavesdropping, even "data diddling." For each type of attack, the book suggests preventive measures and strategies, all in commonsense style and plain English. You'll feel like an FBI agent as you read the personality profiles of different types of computer criminals. Hackers, crackers, and vandals are all psychoanalyzed, and interesting charts of "vulnerabilities" and "countermeasures" will help you make plans to keep your organization safe from outside attack. The book includes discussions of everything from choosing locks and keys to interviewing personnel, setting up "concentric circles" of defense perimeters, and forming a crisis-management team to handle the fallout from a successful computer crime. There's even an entire page devoted to all the passwords you should never use. Almost one-third of the book is given over to the actual text of federal and state laws used to prosecute computer crime. This section is meant not to be read but to be used instead as a reference.