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Inside cyber warfare / Jeffrey Carr ; foreword by Lewis Shepherd.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Sebastopol, Calif. O'Reilly Media, Inc. c2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 212 p. ill. , maps 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780596802158
  • 0596802153
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online:: Inside cyber warfareDDC classification:
  • 363.325 22
Contents:
Assessing the problem -- The rise of the non-state hacker -- The legal status of cyber warfare -- Responding to international cyber attacks as acts of war -- The intelligence component to cyber warfare -- Non-state hackers and the social web -- Follow the money -- Organized crime in cyberspace -- Investigating attribution -- Weaponizing malware -- The role of cyber in military doctrine -- A cyber early warning model -- Advice for policy makers from the field -- Afterword.
Summary: "You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn how sophisticated hackers working on behalf of states or organized crime patiently play a high-stakes game that could target anyone, regardless of affiliation or nationality. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine; discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations; read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival; find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who's responsible; and, learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level"--Back cover.
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"Mapping the cyber underworld"--Cover.

Assessing the problem -- The rise of the non-state hacker -- The legal status of cyber warfare -- Responding to international cyber attacks as acts of war -- The intelligence component to cyber warfare -- Non-state hackers and the social web -- Follow the money -- Organized crime in cyberspace -- Investigating attribution -- Weaponizing malware -- The role of cyber in military doctrine -- A cyber early warning model -- Advice for policy makers from the field -- Afterword.

"You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn how sophisticated hackers working on behalf of states or organized crime patiently play a high-stakes game that could target anyone, regardless of affiliation or nationality. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine; discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations; read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival; find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who's responsible; and, learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level"--Back cover.

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