Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War“A consistently eye-opening history...not just a page-turner but consistently surprising.” —The New York Times “A book that grips, informs, and alarms, finely researched and lucidly related.” —John le Carré As cyber-attacks dominate front-page news, as hackers join terrorists on the list of global threats, and as top generals warn of a coming cyber war, few books are more timely and enlightening than Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War, by Slate columnist and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Fred Kaplan. Kaplan probes the inner corridors of the National Security Agency, the beyond-top-secret cyber units in the Pentagon, the "information warfare" squads of the military services, and the national security debates in the White House, to tell this never-before-told story of the officers, policymakers, scientists, and spies who devised this new form of warfare and who have been planning—and (more often than people know) fighting—these wars for decades. From the 1991 Gulf War to conflicts in Haiti, Serbia, Syria, the former Soviet republics, Iraq, and Iran, where cyber warfare played a significant role, Dark Territory chronicles, in fascinating detail, a little-known past that shines an unsettling light on our future. |
Contents
Could Something Like This Really Happen? | 1 |
Its All About the Information | 21 |
A Cyber Pearl Harbor | 39 |
Eligible Receiver | 57 |
Solar Sunrise Moonlight Maze | 73 |
The Coordinator Meets Mudge | 89 |
Deny Exploit Corrupt Destroy | 107 |
Tailored Access | 119 |
The Whole Haystack | 191 |
Somebody Has Crossed the Rubicon | 203 |
Shady RATs | 221 |
The Five Guys Report | 237 |
Were Wandering in Dark Territory | 265 |
Notes | 287 |
Acknowledgments | 319 |
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