Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About it

Clarke, Richard A. (SIGNED) and Robert K. Knake

ISBN 10: 0061962236 / ISBN 13: 9780061962233

Published by HarperCollins Publishers/ecco, New York, 2010

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Number line: 10 11 12 13 14 ov/wcf 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3. Foreword by authors. Chapter headings: 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. 279 pp. plus Glossary. Tail of spine is lightly rubbed. Unclipped DJ has slight edge wear at head of spine. FlatSIGNED in red sharpie under his name. Bookseller's Inventory # 194349. Seller Inventory # 004349

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Title: Cyber War: The Next Threat to National ...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers/ecco, New York

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: By Author

Edition: True First USA Edition,3rd Printin

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Synopsis:

Author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America’s vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict—Cyber War! Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive book that offers an insider’s view of White House ‘Situation Room’ operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation’s security. This is no X-Files fantasy or conspiracy theory madness—this is real.

From the Back Cover:

Richard A. Clarke warned America once before about the havoc terrorism would wreak on our national security -- and he was right. Now he warns us of another threat, silent but equally dangerous. Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. This is the first book about the war of the future -- cyber war -- and a convincing argument that we may already be in peril of losing it.

Cyber War goes behind the "geek talk" of hackers and computer scientists to explain clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, how cyber weapons work, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals. From the first cyber crisis meeting in the White House a decade ago to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the electrical tunnels under Manhattan, Clarke and coauthor Robert K. Knake trace the rise of the cyber age and profile the unlikely characters and places at the epicenter of the battlefield. They recount the foreign cyber spies who hacked into the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's latest fighter aircraft.

Economically and militarily, Clarke and Knake argue, what we've already lost in the new millennium's cyber battles is tantamount to the Soviet and Chinese theft of our nuclear bomb secrets in the 1940s and 1950s. The possibilities of what we stand to lose in an all-out cyber war -- our individual and national security among them -- are just as chilling. Powerful and convincing, Cyber War begins the critical debate about the next great threat to national security.