Cyber attack
Subtitle: the truth about digital crime, cyber warfare and government snooping
By: Paul Day
Publisher: Carlton Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781780975337; 9781780974545
Subjects: Cyberterrorism; Computer crimes; Wiretapping; Electronic surveillance; Information warfare
Description: There are 8.7 billion devices currently connected to the Internet-- and each one is a threat. We think nothing or making an online transaction, using a smartphone, or an ATM, but as we become increasingly dependent on the electronic flow of information, it makes us vulnerable to cyber attack, as hostile nations and high-tech criminal organizations attempt to steal, spy, and undermine on a mass scale.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : cyber threat; title: Cybercrime; title: Cybercrime defined; title: A new dark economy; title: Types of cybercrime; title: Darkside Silicon Valley; title: The hidden costs of cybercrime; title: Deep web; title: Cyberwar; title: Digital covert warfare; title: What is cyberwar?; title: Cyber-hacktivism; title: Cyber-terrorism; title: Cyber-warriors; title: Cyber weapons; title: Cyber attack; title: Cyber paranoia; title: Digital panopticon; title: The "fake Internet"; title: Corporate malware; title: Perpetual surveillance society; title: Digital paranoia; title: Cyber protection; title: Minimizing cyber threat; title: Information dystopia.