Information Warfare and SecurityWhat individuals, corporations, and governments need to know about information-related attacks and defenses! Every day, we hear reports of hackers who have penetrated computer networks, vandalized Web pages, and accessed sensitive information. We hear how they have tampered with medical records, disrupted emergency 911 systems, and siphoned money from bank accounts. Could information terrorists, using nothing more than a personal computer, cause planes to crash, widespread power blackouts, or financial chaos? Such real and imaginary scenarios, and our defense against them, are the stuff of information warfare-operations that target or exploit information media to win some objective over an adversary. Dorothy E. Denning, a pioneer in computer security, provides in this book a framework for understanding and dealing with information-based threats: computer break-ins, fraud, sabotage, espionage, piracy, identity theft, invasions of privacy, and electronic warfare. She describes these attacks with astonishing, real examples, as in her analysis of information warfare operations during the Gulf War. Then, offering sound advice for security practices and policies, she explains countermeasures that are both possible and necessary. You will find in this book:
Whatever your interest or role in the emerging field of information warfare, this book will give you the background you need to make informed judgments about potential threats and our defenses against them. 0201433036B04062001 |
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... CHAPTER 11. SECRET CODES AND HIDEAWAYS 285 Locks and Keys .. 285 Cryptography 286 Digital Ciphers 286 Code Breaking 289 Generation and Distribution of Keys 297 Public - Key Distribution and Diffie - Hellman 298 Public - Key Cryptography ...
... chapters . Chapter 4 , Open Sources , is about me- dia that are generally available to everyone , including Internet Web sites . It cov- ers open source and competitive intelligence , invasions of privacy , and acts of piracy that ...
... chapter also covers attacks that cripple systems with remote " denial- of - service " attacks . The assailants do not even need to break into the computers they disable . The chapter gives a sampling of hacking tools and techniques but ...
Contents
GULF WARINFOWAR | 3 |
A THEORY OF INFORMATION WARFARE | 21 |
PLAYGROUNDS TO BATTLEGROUNDS | 43 |
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