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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carr, Jeffrey.

Contributor:

Shepherd, Lewis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cyberterrorism.

Information warfare.

Computer crimes.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 212 p.) : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, Calif. : O'Reilly Media, c2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

What people are saying about Inside Cyber Warfare "The necessary handbook for the 21st century." --Lewis Shepherd, Chief Tech Officer and Senior Fellow, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments "A must-read for policy makers and leaders who need to understand the big-picture landscape of cyber war." --Jim Stogdill, CTO, Mission Services Accenture 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 Learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"Mapping the cyber underworld"--Cover.

Includes index.

OCLC:

606556225