information security Concepts

Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

by Zoë Schiffer · 13 Feb 2024 · 343pp · 92,693 words

Davis and Michael Montano, the head of engineering, as he began to reshape the executive ranks. The following month, Rinki Sethi, the company’s chief information security officer, and Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, the head of security, were also cut. The company said Mudge was fired “for ineffective leadership and poor performance,” but

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are you?” he asked. Then he pinged a few higher-ups to see what he should do. They told him that Stanley, who worked in Information Security at SpaceX, was part of Musk’s inner circle. “If he says we have to do this, we have to do this,” one explained. Doherty

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order, Twitter needed to have a designated owner for each of its privacy controls, which included database safeguards for sensitive user data and policies around information security. Unfortunately, Twitter no longer had anyone responsible for about 37 percent of Twitter’s privacy program controls, according to Damien Kieran, then the chief privacy

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officer, per a deposition with the FTC. Lea Kissner, then the chief information security officer, said that half the controls in the information security program did not have a designated owner. Kissner told the Department of Justice that the layoffs impaired Twitter’s ability to

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helped build Twitter’s security apparatus, it was confounding. “Twitter folks, seriously, I left some design docs somewhere,” wrote Lea Kissner, Twitter’s former chief information security officer, on Bluesky. “Please use them.” CHAPTER 61 “Did Your Brain Fall Out of Your Head?” Before Musk bought Twitter, the company’s commitment to

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“Information disaggregated by ‘each department, division, and/or team,’ regardless of whether the work done by these units had anything to do with privacy or information security.” Twitter responded by asking a US District Court in San Francisco to end the consent order. “The Court should not permit the FTC to continue

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’s takeover, the project was set to roll out in the fall of 2022. Then Musk laid off half the company, and Twitter’s chief information security officer, Lea Kissner, resigned. Seven months later, it still wasn’t done. “Twitter is unable to automatically erase/scrub the entirety of a user’s

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Kieran’s claim: “Product and engineering teams plan, develop, and launch new products or changes to existing products’ functionalities without review from legal, privacy, and information security teams, which could result in legal or regulatory fines and penalties and direct violation of the FTC Consent Order.” Even the shutdown of the Sacramento

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. Engineers posted frantic updates in Slack. “FYI some large creators complaining because rate limit affecting paid subscription posts,” one said. Christopher Stanley, the head of information security, wrote with dismay that rate limits could apply to people refreshing the app to get news about a mass shooting or a major weather event

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,” CNN, March 8, 2023, cnn.com/2023/03/08/tech/ftc-twitter-privacy-investigation/index.html. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “with privacy or information security”: “The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission: An Agency’s Overreach to Harass Elon Musk’s Twitter,” Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words

not be your best friend. Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton, wrote on social media about asking ChatGPT some basic questions related to information security that he had posed to students in an exam. The bot responded with answers that sounded plausible but were actually nonsense, and, as he pointed

Beautiful security

by Andy Oram and John Viega · 15 Dec 2009 · 302pp · 82,233 words

The Single Machine Is Here Connecting People, Process, and Technology: The Potential for Business Process Management Social Networking: When People Start Communicating, Big Things Change Information Security Economics: Supercrunching and the New Rules of the Grid Platforms of the Long-Tail Variety: Why the Future Will Be Different for Us All Conclusion

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of the organization’s implementation of controls that protect the security of IT assets. Here are some sample questions: • Does the organization have formally documented information security policies and procedures? • Are employees required to follow these policies and procedures? • Does the organization have an identity and access management process that governs

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very little incentive structure to reward good behavior. The impact of reward structure on improving performance is well understood. It is perhaps time for the information security community to stop relying solely on compliance and start investigating how we can improve overall data protection competency by rewarding good behavior. This should include

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merchant and only for the authorized amount of the recurring charge. This mitigates a great deal of fraud. Broken Incentives A common economic issue in information security involves broken incentives. Incentives are a critical factor in any system dealing with multiple parties, particularly where that system depends on people with free choice

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rules in place to address market failures such as monopolies, pollution, lack of alignment with the “greater good,” or in this case a lack of information security. Forms of regulation in this area include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (GLBA), the

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debate ethical medical research and cry foul about how human cloning could change the planet, but they may well be focused on the wrong problem. Information security and its relationship with technology, of course, dates back through history. The Egyptians carved obfuscated hieroglyphs into monuments; the Spartans used sticks and wound

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programs. 148 CHAPTER NINE analyze DNA for complex patterns of hereditary diseases, predicting entire populations’ hereditary probability to inherit genetic traits. In stark contrast, the information security management programs that are supposed to protect trillions of dollars of assets, keep trade secrets safe from corporate espionage, and hide military plans from the

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People, Process, and Technology: The Potential for Business Process Management” on page 154 • “Social Networking: When People Start Communicating, Big Things Change” on page 158 • “Information Security Economics: Supercrunching and the New Rules of the Grid” on page 162 • “Platforms of the Long-Tail Variety: Why the Future Will Be Different for

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, and business activity monitoring tools—will dramatically change both the ways we need to view the security of modern business software and how we approach information security management itself. Diffuse Security in a Diffuse World In a flat world, workforces are decentralized. Instead of being physically connected in offices or factories

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commonly dehydrated and rehydrated as technologies evolve to automatically discover new services. The complexity and impact of this way of working will only increase. For information security, of course, this brings significant new challenges. Over thousands of years, humans have associated security with physical location. They have climbed hills, built castles

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include rocket science in its future), but it’s doing just that: realigning technology to support the business. In addition to offering radical improvements to information security by opening new markets, BPM can deliver even more powerful changes through its effects on the evolution of the science behind security. The Business Process

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with what I see as its most important potential effects on security: 1. Understand and Document the Process Security effect: Implement a structured and effective information security program 2. Understand Metrics and Objectives Security effect: Understand success criteria and track their effectiveness 3. Model and Automate Process Security effect: Improve efficiency and

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and objectives; model and automate your process; understand and implement your process; and optimize and improve the process, you will implement a structured and effective information security program, understand the success criteria and track effectiveness, improve efficiency and reduce cost, produce fast and accurate compliance, audit data, and ultimately do more with

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less and reduce the cost of security. This is significant! While the topic of BPM for information security could of course fill a whole book—when you consider business process modeling, orchestration, business rules design, and business activity modeling—it would be remiss

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platforms like these really offer little for corporations today, let alone for security professionals, but this will change. And when it changes, the implications for information security could be significant. If social networking today is about people-to-people networking, social networking tomorrow may well be about business-to-business. For several

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formed all over the world to serve more specific purposes. But in the grand scheme of things, business-to-business social networking is very limited. Information security is rarely a competitive advantage (in fact, studies of stock price trends after companies have suffered serious data breaches indicate a surprisingly low correlation, so

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long tails and idea viruses Decentralized connectivity Trading platform Business intelligence Business peer groups Aligned to business goals Platform that connects people, process, and technology Information security as a business discipline Useful business-oriented services Focus on the whole space (information) and not just IT security Facilitate and allow modern business models

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exploit niche products and services previously thought to be uneconomical include iTunes, WordPress, YouTube, Facebook, and many other Internet economy trends. I fundamentally believe that information security is a long-tail market, and I offer three criteria to support this statement: • Every business has multiple processes. • Processes that are similar in

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(more knowledgeable and more in tune) than an observer. Much as blogging tools have democratized publishing and GarageBand has democratized music production, tools will democratize information security. In fact, blogging has already had a significant effect, allowing thousands of security professionals to offer opinions and data. The most far-reaching change will

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are key components of what is called the reputation economy. These filters help people find things and present them in a contextually useful way. Few information security tools today attempt to provide contextually useful information. What we will likely see are tools that merge their particular contributions with reputation mechanisms. A code

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best products and services possible, and it is time we took the security element seriously and clearly faced up to the risks of not doing information security properly. I strongly believe that a well-designed and consistently implemented system development lifecycle applied to all projects will provide significant benefits in improved security

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projects in a “proof of concept” mode. This is a common approach that companies take when starting a secure software program. But Acme’s chief information security officer (yours truly) read a book (Software Security: Building Security In, published by Addison-Wesley) on software security written by a recognized authority, Gary

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of law involving responsibility and negligence, including legal analysis, risk assessment, and liability exposure, necessarily involve balance. As is often the case, the balance in information security tends to focus on competing factors that contribute to an overall security calculus. Unlike other areas of risk assessment (such as life insurance or medical

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insurance, where actuarial data allows strong corollaries to be calculated), information security cannot draw on a significant amount of historical information. This is especially true when considering the legal aspects of security. Nevertheless, we can still take

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Code) places requirements on any “business that conducts business in California” that “owns † See http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc. ‡ See American Bar Association, Information Security Committee, Section of Science and Technology Law, Digital Signature Guidelines, available at http://www.abanet.org/scitech/ec/isc/digital_signature.html (Aug. 1, 1996

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unreported. How can this be? The embarrassment of disclosure that a company or agency was “hacked,” or the fear of lost business based upon shoddy information security practices being disclosed overrides the need to inform the affected persons. In other instances, credit card issuers, telephone companies and internet service providers, along with

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implementing security. Depending on whom you ask, the passage of infosecurity laws and regulations can be viewed as one of the most important trends affecting information security or, conversely, the cause of the dangerous misperception that compliance equals security. This double-edged sword can wind up perpetuating unwarranted complacency. Although regulatory

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compliance certainly is a driver that must be taken into account in the implementation of your information security plan, it should be a result, not a goal. Imagine back to the days before SOX, HIPAA, GLBA, and data breach disclosure laws. Numerous

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nonregulatory sources of guidance and several information security standards provided the direction needed for most information security professionals. Various events, however, led to the passage of the aforementioned laws. From a glass-half-full perspective, the laws have

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has arguably improved security over the previous status quo. For companies outside those silos, state laws requiring data breach notification and reasonable security measures brought information security to the forefront. Thus, regulation can be viewed as the catalyst needed to get many organizations focused on security. Hence, more regulation is purportedly

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Pragmatic security approaches recognize the value proposition in maintaining a secure network, understand the consequences of not having adequate security, and embrace the implementation of information security from the top of the organization down. In effect, pragmatic security creates a culture of security. A similar pragmatic recognition of compliance and ethics exists

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of business units. These assets include Orbitz, CheapTickets, eBookers, Away.com, HotelClub, RatesToGo, AsiaHotels, and Orbitz for Business. With over 16 years of experience in information security and technology, Ed has been involved in protecting information assets at several Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Orbitz, Ed served as VP of Corporate

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book author. He cowrote Security Warrior (http: //oreilly.com/catalog/9780596005450/index.html) (O’Reilly) and contributed to Know Your Enemy, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley), Information Security Management Handbook (Auerbach), Hacker’s Challenge 3 (McGraw-Hill), PCI Compliance (Syngress), OSSEC HIDS (Syngress), and other books. Anton also publishes numerous papers on a

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Nath & Rosenthal LLP, where he is a member of the Internet, Communications & Data Protection practice group and the Venture Technology Group. He counsels clients on information security, privacy, IT licensing, and patents, dealing with such issues as Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), digital and electronic signatures, federated identity, HIPAA, GrammLeach-Bliley, Sarbanes-

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Oxley, state and federal information security laws, identity theft, and security breaches. Randy was a commissioner on the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency and has been recognized as

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Club, 50 backend control systems, 18–20 backward compatibility LANMAN password encoding, 6 learned helplessness and, 2 legacy systems, 7 PGP issues, 117 balance in information security, 202–207 banking industry (see financial institutions) banking trojans, 141, 249 banner ads exploit-laden, 89–92, 143 honeyclients and, 143 banner farms, 98,

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Business Process Management (see BPM) Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), 157 business rules engines, 157 C California AB 1950, 207 California SB 1386 balance in information security, 203–205 on data sharing, 36, 38 on reporting breaches, 55 passage of, 207 call options, 40 Callas, Jon, 107–130 Capture-HPC honeyclient,

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affiliate network, 102 Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, 201 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, 131 communication cyber underground infrastructure, 65, 66 information security and, 207–211 Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI), 202 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), 207 confidentiality of data, 85 confirmation traps defined, 10 intelligence

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certificates, 110 directionality, 227 distributed denial of service (see DDoS) distribution channels, 166 DKIM email-authentication, 124 Dobbertin, Hans, 119 doing the right thing in information security, 211– 212 drop accounts, 70 Drucker, Peter, 163 DSG (Digital Signature Guidelines), 202–203 DSW Shoe Warehouse, 50 Dublin City University, 144 Dunphy, Brian,

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227 SQL Slammer worm, 225 InCtrl change tracker, 92 information dealers defined, 64 IRC data exchange, 67 malware producers and, 64 sources of information, 68 information security as long tail market, 165–167 balance in, 202–207 basic concepts, 200 cloud computing, 150–154 communication considerations, 207–211 connecting people and processes

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and, 158–162 strict scrutiny, 252–254 suggested practices, 257 supercrunching, 153, 162–164 taking a security history, 44–46 web services, 150–154 Information Security Economics, 162–164 Information Security Group, 168 injected iFrames, 69 International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA), 117, 118 International Tariff on Arms Regulations (ITAR), 3 Internet Explorer exploit-based

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-commerce security and, 74 end-of-life upgrades, 2, 7 password security and, 4–6 legal considerations balance in information security, 202–207 communication and information security, 207– 211 doing the right thing, 211–212 information security concepts, 200 log handling, 223 organizational culture, 200–202 value of logs, 214 Levy, Steven, 119 LinkShare affiliate

Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State

by Barton Gellman · 20 May 2020 · 562pp · 153,825 words

badge for a blue one, and received agency identification number 2339176. He was a full-time employee now, soon to be deployable as a telecommunications information security officer. The official designation was TISO, but agency folk, old-timers especially, called the job “commo.” Snowden swallowed a five-figure pay cut to take

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” in an effort to elicit information about the NSA documents, or to steal the digital files. The two of us talked through a well-known information security scenario known as the evil maid attack, which relies on brief physical access to a computer to steal its encryption credentials. The Snowden files, as

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taught a Princeton class called “Secrecy, Accountability, and the National Security State.” Most of my guest speakers—including Mike Levin, a former NSA chief of information security who had once called me a “traitor” on film—agreed by the end of our three-hour seminars that there might be circumstances in which

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Director of National Intelligence, March 30, 2012, https://perma.cc/M9W2-SY3Z. For a slightly more user-friendly guide, see “Marking Classified National Security Information,” Information Security Oversight Office, Revision 4, January 2018, https://perma.cc/6N2K-2SZB. surveillance program created by Dick Cheney: See Gellman, Angler, chapters 11 and 12. “Wish

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://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=868906&p=16121406#p16121406. The wish came true: Family confidant, interview with author, December 10, 2015. telecommunications information security officer: For the contemporary CIA job description, see https://web.archive.org/web/20100324173658/https://www.cia.gov/careers/opportunities/support-professional/copy_of_telecommunications

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Real Edward Snowden.” Runa Sandvik: Snowden (as “Cincinnatus”) to Sandvik, Novmber 18, 2012, copy on file with author. At this writing, Sandvik is chief of information security at the New York Times. Her personal website is https://encrypted.cc. the Tor Project: I discussed Tor in chapters 1 and 2. See www

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“no foreign distribution.” The designation X1 was a claim of exemption from automatic declassification review after ten years. The governing rule at the time was Information Security Oversight Office, “ISOO Directive No. 1,” October 13, 1995, archived at https://fas.org/sgp/isoo/isoodir1.html. Updated rules, which ended the X-series

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exemptions, came in Information Security Oversight Office, “Marking Classified National Security Information,” December 2010, at www.archives.gov/files/isoo/training/marking-booklet.pdf. I am indebted to Steven Aftergood

The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It

by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words

, to some, this is progress. It allows scholars and companies alike to say that the user has been put on notice of privacy practices. Personal information security is another area of inquiry, and there have been some valuable policy innovations in this sphere. For example, a 2003 California law requires firms that

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–5, 222, 233–34; and industry self-regulation, 203; involuntary celebrities, 210–14; “just deal with it,” 111–12; and peer production, 206–16; personal information security, 203–4; Privacy 1.0, 201–5, 208, 215, 216, 222, 232; Privacy 2.0, 205–34; as proxies for other limitations, 112; public vs

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks

by Scott J. Shapiro · 523pp · 154,042 words

would buy only from vendors who had received a high enough security rating from the NSA. In no other way, the military thought, could their information security needs be met. The story of the VAX VMM Security Kernel demonstrates the pitfalls of this strategy. In 1979, Major Roger Schell led a team

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first Lord of the Rings movie was released three months after 9/11.) American demands for physical security had led to a loss in their information security. Trustworthy Computing In 2002, Bill Gates penned another memo, titled “Trustworthy Computing,” in which he expressed anxiety about the loss of consumer confidence in Microsoft

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of applications and services. There is no such thing as “solving” the “problem” of cybersecurity. There are only trade-offs between different aspects of our information security, and between our information and physical securities. We have to balance the costs and benefits before we decide whether and how to patch upcode. For

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always been able to do. Rather, they are novel because they can do what bombs have never been able to do, namely, to affect the information security of the target. Malware can steal data; it can change data; it can block data. Fancy Bear implanted X-Agent on DNC servers, not Novichok

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tried to kill double agent Sergei Skripal. Fancy Bear was trying to steal information. Because cyberweapons enjoy a functional duality—they can affect physical and information security—it would be a mistake to apply the laws of war to all forms of cyber-conflict. If a state uses malware to produce destructive

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eye. Homo sapiens have had 150,000 years to think through rules for protecting physical security. Now our species must turn to developing rules for information security, which will take generations more to hammer out. Once we reject solutionism, we will see how much political work is left to do. In 1929

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upcode controls downcode, and not only because downcode uses the data generated by upcode. We need to deliberate and debate the rules that regulate our information security because we are morally autonomous agents. We contain our own code, but we also put it there. Unlike the 20 billion digital devices in the

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Quarterly 33, no. 5 (2016): 890–911; Ross Anderson et al., “Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime.” The 18th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2019, https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/294492. $600 billion to $6 trillion: Compare James Lewis, “Economic Impact of Cybercrime—No Slowing Down

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pass through. When the Morris worm hit, military administrators disconnected those bridges, thereby containing the damage. provide logical proofs: MacKenzie and Pottinger, “Mathematics, Technology,” 46. information security needs: See, e.g., Michael Warner, “Cybersecurity: A Pre-history,” Intelligence and National Security, 2012; Stephen B. Lipner, “The Birth and Death of the Orange

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-making-of-the-first-computer-virus-the-pakistani-brain-32296. doing doctoral research: As Cohen describes his eureka moment: “I was in Len Adleman’s information security class at USC when the proverbial light bulb turned on. I immediately knew that a virus could penetrate and be used to exploit any connected

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a “reflection” attack. See generally Todd Booth and Karl Andersson, “Network Security of Internet Services: Eliminate DDoS Reflection Amplification Attacks,” Journal of Internet Services and Information Security 5, no. 3 (2015), 58–79. murderous organization’s website: Tim Lee, “The New York Times Web Site Was Taken Down by DNS Hijacking. Here

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Pandey, and Damon McCoy, “Booted: An Analysis of a Payment Intervention on a DDoS-for-Hire Service” (presented at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, California, June 2017), 5, http://damonmccoy.com/papers/vdos.pdf. no technical knowledge required: In 2010, researchers discovered that twelve out of the top twenty

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. See, e.g., Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London: Verso, 2014). Economic analysis: See, e.g., Ross Anderson, “Why Information Security Is Hard—An Economic Perspective,” Proceedings 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2001, https://www.acsac.org/2001/papers/110.pdf. Sociology: Jonathan Lusthaus, The

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?,” Justice Quarterly 33, no. 5 (2016): 890–911; Ross Anderson et al., “Measuring the Changing Cost of Cybercrime,” 18th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, 2019. Under international law: States often sign mutual legal assistance treaties that obligate them to assist each other in criminal prosecutions. See also the Council

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott · 9 May 2016 · 515pp · 126,820 words

Athens. They wouldn’t have been able to transfer their drachmas into bitcoins to hedge against the plummeting fiat currency. Computer scientist Nick Szabo and information security expert Andreas Antonopoulos both argued that robust infrastructure matters and can’t be bootstrapped during catastrophes. Antonopoulos said that Greece’s blockchain infrastructure was lacking

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

by Bruce Schneier · 1 Jan 2000 · 470pp · 144,455 words

also have the duty to tell individuals about the reason for the information collection, to provide access and correct inaccurate information, and to keep that information secure from access by unauthorized parties. Individuals have a right to see their own personal data that has been collected and have inaccuracies corrected. Individuals also

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

by Emmanuel Goldstein · 28 Jul 2008 · 889pp · 433,897 words

, California. Last Thursday, March 2, I presented my written and verbal testimony to the United States Senate Governmental Affairs Committee that described how to increase information security within government agencies. Wow. On The Inside “Doing time” is a strange thing. When you’re on the inside, you can’t look out—you

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris · 2 Jan 2003 · 1,164pp · 309,327 words

or other relationship of trust and confidence, while in possession of material, nonpublic information about the security. Insider trading violations may also include “tipping” such information, securities trading by the person “tipped” and securities trading by those who misappropriate such information. Examples of insider trading cases that have been brought by the

Smart Grid Standards

by Takuro Sato · 17 Nov 2015

Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Stock Market Anomalies and Low Risk Investing

by Vijay Singal · 15 Jun 2004 · 369pp · 128,349 words

Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts

by Lorne Lantz and Daniel Cawrey · 8 Dec 2020 · 434pp · 77,974 words

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words

Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and Erp on Accounting

by Ashutosh Deshmukh · 13 Dec 2005

Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America's First Cyber Spy

by Eric O'Neill · 1 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 88,375 words

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

by Ronald J. Deibert · 13 May 2013 · 317pp · 98,745 words

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 words

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

by David Brin · 1 Jan 1998 · 205pp · 18,208 words

Take the Money and Run: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Demise of American Prosperity

by Eric C. Anderson · 15 Jan 2009 · 264pp · 115,489 words

Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World

by Bruce Schneier · 3 Sep 2018 · 448pp · 117,325 words

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)

by Noam Chomsky · 1 Apr 1999

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

by Richard A. Clarke and Robert Knake · 15 Dec 2010 · 282pp · 92,998 words

The Fugitive Game: Online With Kevin Mitnick

by Jonathan Littman · 1 Jan 1996

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey · 27 Feb 2018 · 348pp · 97,277 words

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman · 4 Nov 2014 · 457pp · 126,996 words

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

by Thomas Rid

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives

by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words

Chinese Spies: From Chairman Mao to Xi Jinping

by Roger Faligot · 30 Jun 2019 · 615pp · 187,426 words

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield · 29 Mar 2020 · 1,380pp · 190,710 words

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

by Kim Zetter · 11 Nov 2014 · 492pp · 153,565 words

Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words

The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications

by Michal Zalewski · 26 Nov 2011 · 570pp · 115,722 words

Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age

by Steven Levy · 15 Jan 2002 · 468pp · 137,055 words

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

by Frank Pasquale · 17 Nov 2014 · 320pp · 87,853 words

Engineering Security

by Peter Gutmann

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words

The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats

by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake · 15 Jul 2019 · 409pp · 112,055 words

The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics

by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

by Christopher Andrew · 27 Jun 2018

Hands-On RESTful API Design Patterns and Best Practices

by Harihara Subramanian · 31 Jan 2019 · 422pp · 86,414 words

The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits' Improbable Crusade to Save the World From Cybercrime

by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden · 24 Oct 2022 · 392pp · 114,189 words

Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks

by Michal Zalewski · 4 Apr 2005 · 412pp · 104,864 words

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

by David E. Sanger · 18 Jun 2018 · 394pp · 117,982 words

Messing With the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News

by Clint Watts · 28 May 2018 · 324pp · 96,491 words

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

by Fred Kaplan · 1 Mar 2016 · 383pp · 105,021 words

Mastering Blockchain, Second Edition

by Imran Bashir · 28 Mar 2018

CIOs at Work

by Ed Yourdon · 19 Jul 2011 · 525pp · 142,027 words

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart · 6 Nov 2021

The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

by Kevin Mitnick, Mikko Hypponen and Robert Vamosi · 14 Feb 2017 · 305pp · 93,091 words

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat

by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words

Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

by Kevin Mitnick · 14 Aug 2011

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford · 25 Sep 2023 · 898pp · 236,779 words

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin · 5 Sep 2011 · 328pp · 100,381 words

There's a War Going on but No One Can See It

by Huib Modderkolk · 1 Sep 2021 · 295pp · 84,843 words

How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon

by Rosa Brooks · 8 Aug 2016 · 548pp · 147,919 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford · 14 Sep 2020 · 696pp · 184,001 words

Demystifying Smart Cities

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