Jeffrey Carr

Inside Cyber Warfare

Mapping the Cyber Underworld

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Produktbeschreibung

When the Stuxnet computer worm damaged the Iranian nuclear program in 2010, the public got a small glimpse into modern cyber warfare - without truly realizing the scope of this global conflict. Inside Cyber Warfare provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world increasingly rely on Internet attacks to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. This updated second edition takes a detailed look at the complex domain of cyberspace, and the players and strategies involved. You'll discover 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. Discover how Russian investment in social networks benefits the Kremlin Learn the role of social networks in fomenting revolution in the Middle East and Northern Africa Explore the rise of anarchist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec Look inside cyber warfare capabilities of nations including China and Israel Understand how the U.S. can legally engage in covert cyber operations Learn how the Intellectual Property war has become the primary focus of state-sponsored cyber operations Jeffrey Carr, the founder and CEO of Taia Global, Inc., is a cyber intelligence expert and consultant who specializes in the investigation of cyber attacks against governments and infrastructures by state and non-state hackers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 179mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9781449310042
• ISBN-10: 1449310044
• Artikelnr.: 33807021

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Carr (CEO, Taia Global, Inc.) is the author of "Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld" (O'Reilly Media 2009) and the founder and CEO of Taia Global, Inc., a boutique security consulting firm for Global 2000 companies. His book has been endorsed by General Chilton, former Commander USSTRATCOM and he has had the privilege of speaking at the US Army War College, Air Force Institute of Technology, Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Study Group and at over 60 conferences and seminars. His firm provides specialized cybersecurity services to a select group of companies and their executives in the defense, technology, and communication sectors world-wide.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
How This Book Came to Be
Conventions Used in This Book
Attributions and Permissions
How to Contact Us
Safari® Books Online
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Assessing the Problem
1.1 The Complex Domain of Cyberspace
1.2 Cyber Crime
1.3 Future Threats
1.4 The Conficker Worm: The Cyber Equivalent of an Extinction Event?
1.5 Africa: The Future Home of the World's Largest Botnet?
1.6 The Way Forward
Chapter 2: The Rise of the Nonstate Hacker
2.1 The StopGeorgia.ru Project Forum
2.2 The Russian Information War
2.3 The Gaza Cyber War between Israeli and Arabic Hackers during Operation Cast Lead
2.4 Control the Voice of the Opposition by Controlling the Content in Cyberspace: Nigeria
2.5 Are Nonstate Hackers a Protected Asset?
Chapter 3: The Legal Status of Cyber Warfare
3.1 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaties
3.2 The Antarctic Treaty System and Space Law
3.3 UNCLOS
3.4 MLAT
3.5 The Law of Armed Conflict
3.6 Is This an Act of Cyber Warfare?
3.7 Cyber: The Chaotic Domain
Chapter 4: Responding to International Cyber Attacks as Acts of War
4.1 The Legal Dilemma
4.2 The Law of War
4.3 Nonstate Actors and the Law of War
4.4 Analyzing Cyber Attacks under Jus ad Bellum
4.5 The Choice to Use Active Defenses
4.6 Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Intelligence Component to Cyber Warfare
5.1 The Korean DDoS Attacks (July 2009)
5.2 One Year After the RU-GE War, Social Networking Sites Fall to DDoS Attack
5.3 Ingushetia Conflict, August 2009
5.4 The Predictive Role of Intelligence
Chapter 6: Nonstate Hackers and the Social Web
6.1 Russia
6.2 China
6.3 The Middle East
6.4 Pakistani Hackers and Facebook
6.5 The Dark Side of Social Networks
6.6 TwitterGate: A Real-World Example of a Social Engineering Attack with Dire Consequences
6.7 Automating the Process
Chapter 7: Follow the Money
7.1 False Identities
7.2 Components of a Bulletproof Network
7.3 The Bulletproof Network of StopGeorgia.ru
7.4 SORM-2
7.5 The Kremlin and the Russian Internet
7.6 A Three-Tier Model of Command and Control
Chapter 8: Organized Crime in Cyberspace
8.1 A Subtle Threat
8.2 Russian Organized Crime and the Kremlin
Chapter 9: Investigating Attribution
9.1 Using Open Source Internet Data
9.2 Team Cymru and Its Darknet Report
9.3 Using WHOIS
Chapter 10: Weaponizing Malware
10.1 A New Threat Landscape
Chapter 11: The Role of Cyber in Military Doctrine
11.1 The Russian Federation
11.2 China Military Doctrine
Chapter 12: A Cyber Early Warning Model
12.1 The Challenge We Face
Chapter 13: Advice for Policymakers from the Field
13.1 When It Comes to Cyber Warfare: Shoot the Hostage
13.2 The United States Should Use Active Defenses to Defend Its Critical Information Systems
13.3 Scenarios and Options to Responding to Cyber Attacks
13.4 In Summary
13.5 Whole-of-Nation Cyber Security
Chapter 14: Conducting Operations in the Cyber-Space-Time Continuum
14.1 Anarchist Clusters: Anonymous, LulzSec, and the Anti-Sec Movement
14.2 Social Networks: The Geopolitical Strategy of Russian Investment in Social Media
14.3 Globalization: How Huawei Bypassed US Monitoring by Partnering with Symantec
Chapter 15: The Russian Federation: Information Warfare Framework
15.1 Russia: The Information Security State
15.2 Russian Ministry of Defense
15.3 Internal Security Services: Federal Security Service (FSB), Ministry of Interior (MVD), and Federal Security Organization (FSO)
15.4 Russian Federation Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications (Minsvyaz)
15.5 Further Research Areas
Chapter 16: Cyber Warfare Capabilities by Nation-State
16.1 Australia
16.2 Brazil
16.3 Canada
16.4 Czech Republic
16.5 Democratic People's Republic of Korea
16.6 Estonia
16.7 European Union
16.8 France
16.9 Germany
16.10 India
16.11 Iran
16.12 Israel
16.13 Italy
16.14 Kenya
16.15 Myanmar
16.16 NATO
16.17 Netherlands
16.18 Nigeria
16.19 Pakistan
16.20 People's Republic of China
16.21 Poland
16.22 Republic of Korea
16.23 Russian Federation
16.24 Singapore
16.25 South Africa
16.26 Sweden
16.27 Taiwan (Republic of China)
16.28 Turkey
16.29 United Kingdom
Chapter 17: US Department of Defense Cyber Command and Organizational Structure
17.1 Summary
17.2 Organization
Chapter 18: Active Defense for Cyber: A Legal Framework for Covert Countermeasures
18.1 Covert Action
18.2 Cyber Active Defense Under International Law
18.3 Cyber Active Defenses as Covert Action Under International Law
18.4 Cyber Attacks Under International Law: Nonstate Actors
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