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Author
Publisher
BenBella Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From cybersecurity expert and former CIA hacker Eric Cole, Cyber Crisis explains why cybersecurity should be the top concern for all professionals and offers actionable advice that anyone can implement on regular basis for increased safety and protection"--
2) Zero days
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English
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"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
3) The sentinel
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there's nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight, Reacher spots a hapless soul walking into an ambush. 'It was four against one,' so Reacher intervenes, with his own trademark brand of conflict resolution. The man he saves is Rusty Rutherford, an unassuming IT manager, recently...
Author
Series
Tom Clancy's Net Force (Adult series) volume 11
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The number one threat to our nation's security is in cyberspace. The new US president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organization can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack. Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested, unproven and officially unnamed, Net Force's elite group of...
5) The ransomware hunting team: a band of misfits' improbable crusade to save the world from cybercrime
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The story of a band of volunteer cybersecurity experts who use their computer skills to crack ransomware and help victims of cybercrime"--
Scattered across the world, an elite team of code crackers is working tirelessly to thwart the defining cyber scourge of our time. You've probably never heard of them. But if you work for a school, a business, a hospital, or a municipal government, or simply cherish your digital data, you may be painfully familiar...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"The United States may seem safe from within but beyond its borders, a new enemy rises. An American ship has vanished. The president has tasked the new cyber-intelligence agency, Net Force, with finding out what happened to the vessel. But their investigation reveals a plan that could trigger a world war. Their only option is to strike first. Through the streets of New York, a secret city in Crimea and the depths of the South China Seas, Net Force...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The president's new cybersecurity team, Net Force, is up and running. But a political deadlock in Washington makes the young agency dangerously vulnerable to the criminals, terror groups and hostile governments who would use the digital space to advance their destructive goals. In Central Europe, an unknown enemy mounts a crippling high-tech assault against the organization's military threat-response unit on its home base. The strike casts suspicion...
11) Attack surface
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause...
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Publisher
Page Two Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Stories of massive data breaches litter the 24-hour newsday headlines. Hackers and cybercrime syndicates are hitting a who's who of banks, retailers, law firms, and healthcare organizations: companies with sophisticated security systems designed to stop crime before it starts. They're also hitting companies that thought they were too small to matter. So how do cybercriminals continue to breach the defenses of the big companies--and why do they go...
Author
Publisher
No Starch Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An introduction to cybersecurity for readers new to the field. It covers the fundamentals of cybersecurity and shares practical advice on how readers can keep themselves and their computers safe from phishing, malware, network attacks, and other hacker exploits. Provides real-world examples"--
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"April Falcon Doss, a cybersecurity and privacy expert with experience working for the NSA and the US government, explores the most common types of data being collected about individuals today and delve into how it is being used-sometimes against us-by the private sector, the government, and even our employers and schools"--
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the former news policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia that could potentially crush democracy. From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google's global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a...
18) The art of cyberwarfare: an investigator's guide to espionage, ransomware, and organized cybercrime
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Publisher
No Starch Press Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book is a guide to understanding the players in today's cyber wars, the techniques they use, and the process of analyzing their attacks. It provides an overview of actual cyber attacks conducted by nation-state actors and other advanced organizations and informs how defenders can track and attribute future attacks"--
19) Digital fortress
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Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A computer wiz takes on the government in defense of the right to privacy. On hearing the National Security Agency has secretly installed a program that can read anyone's e-mail, Ensei Tankado comes up with a program to paralyze it. A conflict ensues and people die.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
To prevent global chaos, Net Force agent Kali Alcazar, a member of America's elite cyber-defense organization, leads a final strike against the world's most dangerous hacker, discovering too late that he has prepared a deadly trap for them all.
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