Cybershock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption - Softcover

Schwartau, Winn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156025307X ISBN 13: 9781560253075

Publisher: Basic Books, 2001

Synopsis

In recent years information warfare has trickled from the domain of governments and megacorporations into the lives and workplaces of the average citizen, and privacy concerns are at an all-time high. Cybershock is the first book to guide the average Internet user through online perils and offers answers and solutions in common-sense language. Winn Schwartau leads readers through the basics (What's hacking? Who hacks?), introduces actual hacking tools and techniques, and using corporate, law enforcement, and military examples, teaches how to become a successful anti-hacker. It also provides balanced viewpoints through graphic, pictorial, and written contributions from the principal stakeholders: hackers and phreakers; corporate security experts; lawyers and cyberjudicial professionals; and officers with the security-sensitive military and government agencies. The book includes an extensive listing of both hacking and anti-hacking Internet sites and a compendium of the leading anti-hacking security products and tools.

About this title

About the Author

Winn Schwartau is one of the country's leading experts on information security and electronic privacy. He has written articles and editorial pieces in many magazines and newspapers such as the NY Times, Information Week, ComputerWorld, PC Week, among others. As an acknowledged global expert in the field, Schwartau has testified before Congress, advised committees and has consulted as an expert witness. He also consults for private companies and has held lectures for the FBI, The Swedish Government, NATO, NASA, Military Intelligence, the US Air Force Academy and many, many more.

From Library Journal

One of the leading information security and electronic privacy experts in the United States, Schwartau (Information Warfare) here brings the perils of the Internet to life in an engaging style accessible to the average reader. Schwartau describes an Internet full of criminal hackers and cyberpunks who are clearly ethically challenged but clever enough and willing to use deception to establish and expand their power. He explains who these people are, why they hack, and how they crack passwords, break into systems, and maintain their anonymity. More importantly, Schwartau suggests what a user can do to deter such attacks and explains the fundamentals of how to protect oneself without having to become a security expert. With burgeoning concerns over privacy and security on the Internet, this is one book that everyone from systems administrators to casual net surfers should read. References to further readings are scattered throughout the work. Highly recommended for most collections.
-Joe Accardi, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 156025307X
• ISBN 13: 9781560253075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496