Sixteen-year-old Lily Masterson, struggling to support herself and her six-year-old sister by selling the family jewelry, investigates the strange events surrounding her father's mysterious death.

Identity theft can destroy your reputation, deplete your bank accounts, and do serious damage to your financial future. You need a complete solution to prevent it, detect it, and recover from it when it happens. James LaPiedra clearly outlines the problem and explains how to: - assess your current risk factors; - reduce your vulnerability; - proactively monitor for suspicious activity; - respond quickly to restore a compromised identity. The thieves just don't want cash: They'll take your social security number, driver's license, health plan, credit, and anything else they can get their hands on. Even worse, identity theft is easier than ever because of the proliferation of sharing personal information on the Internet. By learning how real people become victims, you'll be able to minimize your chances of becoming a victim and take the proper steps if you're targeted. Protect yourself, your family, and your future with Identity Lockdown.

The Canadian edition of The Little Black Book of Scams is a compact and easy to use reference guide filled with information Canadians can use to protect themselves against a variety of common scams. It debunks common myths about scams, provides contact information for reporting a scam to the correct authority, and offers a step-by-step guide for scam victims to reduce their losses and avoid becoming repeat victims. Consumers and businesses can consult The Little Black Book of Scams to avoid falling victim to social media and mobile phone scams, fake charities and lotteries, dating and romance scams, and many other schemes used to defraud Canadians of their money and personal information.

Cases on Criminal Procedure: 2019-2020 Edition

Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized procedures for administering line-ups, and improvements in the handling of eyewitness identification in court can increase the chances that accurate identifications are made. This report explains the science that has emerged during the past 30 years on eyewitness identifications and identifies best practices in eyewitness procedures for the law enforcement community and in the presentation of eyewitness evidence in the courtroom. In order to continue the advancement of eyewitness identification research, the report recommends a focused research agenda.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference, SecureComm 2009, held in September 2009 in Athens, Greece. The 19 revised full papers and 7 revised short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 76 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as wireless network security, network intrusion detection, security and privacy for the general internet, malware and misbehavior, sensor networks, key management, credentials and authentications, as well as secure multicast and emerging technologies.