Hidden Files: Tales of Cyber Crime Investigation

by Triveni Singh, Amit Dubey

“Would you believe if I told you that you have been robbed by a man who died two-and-a –half years ago?” “Could sending an SMS have been the biggest mistake of your life?” “He just answered a phone call and lost Rs 82 lakhs from his account.” “When a 14-year-old boy turned out to be the biggest headache for the Indian Railways.” “How did a 25-year-old earn Rs 3700 crores just through Facebook likes?” “Can your electricity bill help me make Rs 100 crores?” “Can playing a mobile game lead to a kidnapping?” “You may leave your home unlocked but don’t leave your mobile without a password!” “When the Fitbit band of a dead girl became crucial evidence to put the criminals behind bars.” “Would you like to know the secrets your home WiFi can reveal?” “When a WhatsApp message was the reason for his living or dying.” “The cost of his life was only 3 Bitcoins.” “Had she not lost her phone that day, she would have died. "A renowned cyber cop Prof. Triveni Singh and a cyber expert and a very creative story-teller, Amit Dubey have used their experiences from the world of cyber crime to put together this remarkable compilation of short stories. Weaving fiction into facts brilliantly, each story illustrates the inherent presence of cyber crime in our existence nowadays. Narrated mostly in the first person, with a few exceptions, the incidents related are based on actual cyber crimes that they have tackled over the course of their career. The layman will be amazed to learn, through this collection of stories, just how prevalent cyber crime is in our time.

230 pages, Paperback

Published December 26, 2019

Reviews

[Maitri · Rating 5 out of 5]

In today's modern world where everybody knows how to use the internet, these book is gold. the author tried to make justice to the reader and add every way of cyber bulcyberbullyingre a total of 16 chapters init with a total of 142 pages .each and every topic gives us information on how we aren't as safe as we think we are! My favorite was 3700 card ka Facebook like ek online shikayat aur loot, honey trapping, etc
Whenever you think you erased your history and another thing from a website or app and think no one would be able to view it you can't be more wrong! As Google saves all our history login, logout, chats, photos, etc
Whoever has the proper knowledge to know these things can gratefully gate them. when there was information that all Google data is leaked people panicked because it contains a major part of our personal life that can be misused if got into the wrong hands.
There are two sides to a coin the same way there are two sides to anything the internet can be used for good reasons too as students used it for studying and people use it for work, etc students were relieved to have the internet as their studies got easy because Of it.
Most of the time there is someone we know to do wrong/crime with us and some chapters state and makes us realize that on the internet anyone can alter identity to make you like them, a photo can be morphed, a bank account can be hacked, etc. This book is based on the first cyber crime radio show .cover is eye-catching and the language used is lucid and easy to understand

[Akshat Pathak · Rating 2 out of 5]

Badly written interesting stories
It's neither about what happened in the stories!
Not about the characters!

It's all about how an unmotivated tech-geek solves the cyber crimes!