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Dark territory : the secret history of cyber war / Fred Kaplan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016Copyright date: �2016Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: ix, 338 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781476763255 (hardback)
  • 1476763259 (hardback)
  • 9781476763262 (trade paper)
  • 1476763267 (trade paper)
Subject(s):
Contents:
"Could something like this really happen?" -- "It's all about the information" -- A cyber Pearl Harbor -- Eligible receiver -- Solar sunrise, moonlight maze -- The coordinator meets Mudge -- Deny, exploit, corrupt, destroy -- Tailored access -- Cyber wars -- Buckshot Yankee -- "The whole haystack" -- "Somebody has crossed the Rubicon" -- Shady RATs -- "The five guys report" -- "We're wandering in dark territory".
Summary: "As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and (more often than people know) fighting--these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: "The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future--the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prize--winning security and defense journalist"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"A consistently eye-opening history...not just a page-turner but consistently surprising." -- The New York Times

"A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related." --John le Carré

As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War , by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan.

Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and (more often than people know) fighting--these wars for decades.

From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-317) and index.

"As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers displace terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning--and (more often than people know) fighting--these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future"-- Provided by publisher.

"The never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invented and employ the wars of the present and future--the cyber wars where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer, as reported by a Pulitzer Prize--winning security and defense journalist"-- Provided by publisher.

"Could something like this really happen?" -- "It's all about the information" -- A cyber Pearl Harbor -- Eligible receiver -- Solar sunrise, moonlight maze -- The coordinator meets Mudge -- Deny, exploit, corrupt, destroy -- Tailored access -- Cyber wars -- Buckshot Yankee -- "The whole haystack" -- "Somebody has crossed the Rubicon" -- Shady RATs -- "The five guys report" -- "We're wandering in dark territory".

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