| Sumario: | The article presents analyses of five books on the dangers of cyber terrorism. These books are "Fraud 101: Techniques and Strategies for Detection," by Howard R. Davia; "Information Warfare: Corporate Attack and Defence in a Digital World," by William Hutchinson and Matthew Warren; "Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth About Global Money Laundering," by Peter Lilley; "The Transnational Dimension of Cyber Crime and Terrorism," edited by Abraham D. Sofaer and Seymour E. Goodman; and "Money Laundering: A New International Law Enforcement Model," by Guy Stessens. The openness of the Internet is both its best asset and worst liability. Its capacity to promote technical innovation renders it simultaneously open to exploitation by unscrupulous, profit-minded criminals in what amounts to a lawless free-for-all. Originally designed as a means of ensuring continued communications in the event of a nuclear war destroying the conventional telecommunications infrastructure, the Internet now also represents an instrument with which one can damage the new information society in unprecedented ways.
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