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Description edit
Few understand the devastation cyber weapons can wreak or how the United States will use them in a crisis. Security expert Richard A. Clarke goes beyond 'geek talk' to succinctly explain how cyber weapons work and how vulnerable America is to the new world of nearly untraceable cyber criminals... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Bill Clinton: Former US President
- George W. Bush: Former US President
- Mike Mcconnell: Former director of US Directorate of National Intelligence
- Obama: US President
- Friedman: Add a description of this character.
- Janet Napolitano: Secretary of department of homeland security
Setting & Locations edit
- Exercise South China Sea
- United States
- Russia
- North Korea
- White House
- Georgia
- America
- Estonia
- Washington
- Iraq
- Syria
- Soviet Union
- Moscow
- Israel
- South Korea
- Taiwan
- Beijing
- Afghanistan
- Vietnam
- Virginia
- Qaeda
- Asia
- New York
- Iran
- Japan
- Europe
- Germany
- Turkey
- Damascus
- Tallinn
- Minneapolis
- Egypt
- Malaysia
- New Jersey
- Kremlin
- Canada
- Chicago
- France
Organizations edit
First Sentence edit
A quarter- moon reflected on the slowly flowing Euphrates, a river along which nations have warred for five thousand years.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction
1. Trial Runs
2. Cyber Warriors
3. The Battlespace
4. The Defense Fails
5. Toward a Defensive Strategy
6. How Offensive?
7. Cyber Peace
8. The Agenda
Glossary edit
- Authentication: The process of ensuring that a person or device has correctly identified and assured itself that it is communicating with the party it intends rather than an impersonator
- Backbone: A main artery of the Internet. Usually a fibre optic cable connecting two major Internet nodes, egba telco or university
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Describe this term.
- Botnet
- Buffer Overflow
- Civilian Infrastructure
- Crisis Instability
- Cyber Boundary
- DARPA (also seen as ARPA)
- Deep-Packet Inspection
- Distributed Denial of Service
- Domain Name System (DNS)
- Edge
- Encryption
- Equivalence
- Escalation Dominance
- Espionage
- Hacker
- Internet
- Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- JWICS
- Latency
- Launch on Warning
- Logic Bomb
- Malware
- National Accountability
- National Cyber Strength
- NIPRNET
- No First Use
- NSA
- Obligation to Assist
- Out of Band
- Server
- SIPRNET
- Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (SCADA)
- TCP/IP
- Telecom Hotels
- Tier 1
- Trapdoor
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-196223-3
Page Count: 279
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-196223-3
Page Count: 279
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 324
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Freedom & Security › International Security
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Freedom & Security › Intelligence
- Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › E-commerce
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Practical Politics
- Books › Computers & Internet › Business & Culture › Culture
- Books › Computers & Internet › Programming
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