[ISN] Information Warfare and Security by: Dorothy Denning

[Moderator: Chapter 8, pg 203: "The chapter gives a sampling of hacking
 tools and techniques but is not exhaustive. Additional methods are
 described in the next two chapters. A good, in-depth guide to hacking is
 Carolyn Meinel's book The Happy Hacker." Enough said.]

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Information Warfare and Security
by: Dorothy E. Denning
part of the ACM Press
 
What 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:

   * A comprehensive and coherent treatment of offensive and defensive
     information warfare, identifying the key actors, targets,
     methods, technologies, outcomes, policies, and laws;

   * A theory of information warfare that explains and integrates
     within a single framework operations involving diverse actors and
     media;

   * An accurate picture of the threats, illuminated by actual
     incidents;

   * A description of information warfare technologies and their
     limitations, particularly the limitations of defensive
     technologies.

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. 

ISBN: 0-201-43303-6
pages: 544
1999
binding: Paper

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Professor Denning's informative Web site:
http://www.cosc.georgetown.edu/~denning/

 

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