| Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld |  | Author: Jeffrey Carr
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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What people are saying about Inside Cyber Warfare
"The necessary handbook for the 21st century."
--Lewis Shepherd, Chief Tech Officer and Senior Fellow, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments
"A must-read for policy makers and leaders who need to understand the big-picture landscape of cyber war."
--Jim Stogdill, CTO, Mission Services Accenture
You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn 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. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. - Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine
- Discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations
- Read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival
- Find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who's responsible
- Learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level
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 Welcome to Cyber world war 1 April 7, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In //Inside Cyber Warfare//, author Jeffrey Carr details how acts of violence are carried out via the Internet. What the reader gets are some examples of how cyber warfare has been carried out in the past, and how governments have used it against each other. Carr also discusses what types of cyber attacks constitute armed attacks. Carr also details state versus non-state (meaning carried out by an individual, not a state-sponsored) cyber attacks. Carr does a great job of explaining the various legal questions about cyber attacks and legal versus illegal retaliation by a government.
Why is all this important? Readers will gain an understanding of how a victimized government can respond according to various U.N. resolutions. Carr also discusses the use of social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook, where there a lot of information is available that can be accessed anonymously and used for targeting individuals in the military who share their profiles on these sites. Carr's expertise is unquestioned. The book is very well written and researched and an informative read.
Reviewed by Marc Filippelli
Cyber Warfare Ripped From The Headlines and Explained February 26, 2010
Ira Laefsky (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Seldom would I describe a guidebook from the excellent O'Reilly Technology Series as "Ripped from the Headlines"; but this fast-paced
news analysis and technology public policy book is just that. It describes the behavior methods and practices of "State" and "Non-State" Actors on the International scene as they exploit the weaknesses of the Internet and Web Infrastructure for Political and Criminal purposes. It describes in a moderate level of technical detail the exploits of political and criminal hacker teams, some working for their own profit and political purposes, others under the direct authority of a Nation State especially during the recent period of 2002-2009 in the Middle East, China and the states of the FSU. The author Jeffry Carr is a leading analyst of Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism, the Principal of the Grey Logic Consulting firm that addresses the needs of large companies and governments, and author of the widely read IntelFusion blog.
Other reviewers may have been confused by the nature of the subject matter addressed by this short but excellent and well-written volume it is not a technologist's guide to hacking activities, nor is is it a spy novel, but it carefully and interestingly relates the dimensions of a current political and economic problem brought about by the activities of political entities, criminal and terroristic elements. It will enable the reader to become well informed about an important Technology and Public Policy issue which pervades today's headlines.
--Ira Laefsky
MSE/MBA IT Consultant and Former Senior Staff Member of Arthur D. Little and DIGITAL Equipment
 Light and Over-Hyped February 25, 2010
Dave
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I bought this book trying to further my understanding of Cyber Warfare and how it has become integral force multiplier/enabler in today's digital battlefield. Unfortunately, I quickly realized that this book was basically a regurgitation of what is available on the Internet with a little "googling". The book itself is tiresome to read and feels like you are just trying to weed through so much "chaff" as you attempt to find something compelling to take away. Granted, I think if you have done no initial reading on the subject and it is totally new to you- this book may be a good primer. Seriously though, if you are a student that wants to gain a better understanding of how cyberspace plays a role in a geo-political strategic context- this is not the book for you. If Jeffrey Carr is an expert in Cyber Warfare- he needs to way up the ante on another book and make it more than just a conglomeration of articles that are pretty much freely available on the Internet.
A Scary, But Factual IT Security Book January 31, 2010
William Slater III (Chicago, IL USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is literally the scariest book I have read in the last 25 years. It is well organized, well-written, up-to-date, and very well researched. If you work with computers in ANY capacity, especially IT Security, Information Assurance, etc., you NEED this book!
Enlightening and alarming January 23, 2010
J. Scott Shipman (Annandale, VA)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Mr. Carr's Inside Cyber Warfare is an informative and frightening glimpse into the dangerous realities of our global (connected) digital world. In form and function the book provides the layman a good taxonomy of methods, tactics, and strategies of governments [w/particular emphasis on Russia and China], criminal enterprises and hackers [in groups or on their own]. He does a very good job of describing the legal status of cyber warfare---exposing many holes which leaves most of the work exposed and without legal remedy/recourse. Most informative was his descriptions of the vulnerabilities of social media and how these everyday tools can be be used for mischief. This book is recommended for anyone curious about the state of our cyber world or information warfare. Well done, Mr. Carr. Highly recommended.
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