Book review
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools by Cory Altheide & Harlan Carvey
ISBN: 978-1-59749-586-8 Published April 2011 | Paperback | 270 pages
Digital Forensics with Open Source Tools is the definitive book on investigating and analyzing computer systems and media using open source tools. The book is a technical procedural guide, and explains the use of these tools on Linux and Windows systems as a platform for performing computer forensics. Both well known and novel forensic methods are demonstrated using command-line and graphical open source computer forensic tools for examining a wide range of target systems and artifacts.
- Written by world-renowned forensic practitioners
- Covers open source forensic tools for all major systems: Windows, Mac and Linux
- Uses the most current examination and analysis techniques in the field
(source: help net security)
Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Other Social Media Sites by Matthew A. Russell
Pages: 360; Publisher: O'Reilly; ISBN: 1449388345
The only way you could have missed the fact that the social networking boom has led to huge amounts of social data becoming available to knowledgeable searchers is if you haven't been using a computer and the Internet at all. This book will show you how to discover who's talking to whom, what about and where they are located in the real world - in short, how to mine useful data from the social networks, blogs and email.
About the author
Matthew Russell, Vice President of Engineering at Digital Reasoning Systems and Principal at Zaffra, is a computer scientist who is passionate about data mining, open source, and web application technologies.
Inside the book
If you pick up this book, it is very desirable that you know something about programming in general and programming in Python in particular, otherwise, I guarantee you, you won't understand most of what you are meant to. (help net security)
Kingpin by Kevin Poulsen
Hardcover; 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-307-58868-5; www.Kingpin.cc
*Yeah, I gave it a dramatic blurb, but you know what? That book’s pretty darn good!
“Kevin Poulsen gets so close to these paranoid, shadowy people that you can smell the sweat on the keyboards and hear the handcuffs clack shut. No other book can match this intimate, expert portrait of a truly modern criminal underworld.” — Bruce Sterling, Hugo Award-winning novelist and futurist
“A fascinating depiction of a cybercriminal underworld frightening in its complexity and its potential for harm, and a society shockingly vulnerable to cybercrime. Poulsen renders the hacker world with such virtual reality that readers will have difficultly logging off until the very end.” — Publishers Weekly
The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
Atlantic, 276 pp, £17.99, September 2010, ISBN 978 1 84887 225 7
Enhanced or Diminished by Web: Authors Question Impact to 1.8 Billion Web Users
Several articles via WSJ.com, New York Times and The Atlantic delve into arguments raised by authors of new books on the subject of the Web's impact on acquiring, retaining and utilizing knowledge. 
Does the Internet Make You Smarter? Amid the silly videos and spam are the roots of a new reading and writing culture, says Clay Shirky.Does the Internet Make You Dumber? The cognitive effects are measurable: We're turning into shallow thinkers, says Nicholas Carr.
"Nicholas Carr argues that we are sabotaging ourselves, trading away the seriousness of sustained attention for the frantic superficiality of the Internet."
An except of Nicholas Carr's book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.
"In Carr's new book The Shallows, he explores in greater depth the cognitive and historic implications [that Internet use is literally altering our brains] comparing the Internet's impact to that of other technological innovations, including the printed book."