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Imagine a blackout lasting not days, but weeks or months. Tens of millions of people over several states are affected. For those without access to a generator, there is no running water, no sewage, no refrigeration or light. Food and medical supplies are dwindling. Devices we rely on have gone dark. Banks no longer function, looting is widespread, and law and order are being tested as never before. It isn't just a scenario. A well-designed attack...
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TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A fun and informative illustrated kids' guide to safely and productively navigating the digital landscape. Cellphones have become a fact of life, with children as young as eight (yes, eight!) getting their very own 'devices.' Such boundless access means our kids are in nearly constant contact with technology that was designed specifically for adults. And they're doing so without any type of road map. Enter First Phone: the essential book that apprehensive...
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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...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The internet is powerful, but it is not safe. As "smart" devices proliferate the risks will get worse, unless we act now. From driverless cars to smart thermostats, from autonomous stock-trading systems to drones equipped with their own behavioral algorithms, the internet now has direct effects on the physical world. While this computerized future, often called the Internet of Things, carries enormous potential, best-selling author Bruce Schneier...
9) The fifth domain: defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"There is much to fear in the dark corners of cyberspace. From well-covered stories like the Stuxnet attack which helped slow Iran's nuclear program, to lesser-known tales like EternalBlue, the 2017 cyber battle that closed hospitals in Britain and froze shipping crates in Germany in midair, we have entered an age in which online threats carry real-world consequences. But we do not have to let autocrats and criminals run amok in the digital realm....
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book provides advice and support to help library employees best deal with sexually harassing patrons, unruly groups of students, gang members, thieves, Internet hogs, and others who can disrupt the safe library environment"--
11) The worst thing
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Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"For Bryan Bennett, designing hostage negotiation programs is the perfect job--as long as he keeps a safe, theoretical distance. What he can't do is deal directly with kidnappers or their victims, as a result of his own abduction and imprisonment as a small boy. Thirty-some years later, intense nightmares still plague his sleep, and a fear of enclosed spaces prevents him from attempting to travel. So when Bryan's boss asks him to fly to Reykjavik,...
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Using real-world examples set within the context of a child who is using the internet for the first time and watching an older sibling interact with social media, Dr. Roberts takes readers through several common scenarios around parental supervision, online bullying and anonymity. She also includes examples of people who use the internet to make the world a better place. On the Internet addresses common safety concerns in a child-centered way and...
14) Corsair
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Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the early 2020s, two young, genius computer hackers, Elizabeth Santiago and David Schwartz, meet at MIT, where Schwartz is sneaking into classes, and have a brief affair. David is amoral and out for himself, and soon disappears. Elizabeth dreams of technology and space travel and takes a military job after graduating. Nearly ten years later, David is setting himself to become a billionaire by working in the shadows under a multiplicity of names...
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organizations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your information, your location, your...
16) The phone book: stay safe, be smart, and make the world better with the powerful device in your hand
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Publisher
Familius
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"So...you got a phone! You can text your friends, play games, and take cool pictures! You have the whole world in your pocket--power to be used as a force for good or, um, not so good. Fraught with cyberbullying, disinformation, fake stuff, tech addiction, and so much more, the digital world can be downright sad, awkward, and nasty. But have no fear, kids--The Phone Book is here! Packed with research-based explanations, techy tidbits, and real stories...
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Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Al Qaeda did not stop after 9/11. Its reign of terror continued with bombings and mayhem across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. But its frustration grew as the group failed to fundamentally undermine America and its allies. Five years later the time was ripe for another spectacular mega-plot. Fresh from masterminding the London Underground carnage, one veteran operative set in motion a new operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
In David Ignatius's gripping new novel, spies don't bother to steal information{u2026}they change it, permanently and invisibly. Graham Weber has been the director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber turns to a charismatic (and unstable)...
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Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 1
Publisher
Seventh Street Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Max, an elderly Paris bookstall owner, is abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks on helplessly, powerless to do anything to stop the kidnapper. Marston launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the mysterious...
20) A woman alone
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's another bright, sunny day in Venture, Illinois, the sort of place where dreams come true and families can get a fresh start. Cecelia Holmes deserves it after the home invasion that shattered her previous life. Now everything seems perfect--her high-security SmartHome, her doting husband, her sweet daughter. Until she begins to feel spied on. Her husband doesn't believe her. Her neighbors ignore her. So when she discovers a shocking secret about...
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