Syngress Published Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity

Here's a wild one. Syngress Publishing, Inc., announced the publication of Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity (ISBN:1597490067, 450p, $39.95), at the popular Black Hat Briefings. This is the third book in the bestselling Stealing the Network series from Syngress. The all-star cast of multiple authors--Timothy Mullen, Ryan Russell, Riley (Caezar) Eller, Jeff Moss, Jay Beale, Johnny Long, Chris Hurley, Tom Parker, Brian Hatch--tackles one of the fastest growing crimes in the world, identity theft. Johnny Long's chapter, Death by a Thousand Cuts,

"...follows, in part, a forensic cop's efforts to make a disc image of an iPod that was found at a crime scene. The trouble is, Apple's drivers spring into action whenever the iPod senses it has connected to a computer. If the driver activity changes anything in the iPod, all evidence on it will be inadmissible in court."

You'll have to read the book to see how this was solved. [Bill Fox]