Cyber Security: Power and Technology

Cyber Security: Power and Technology
Author: Martti Lehto
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-05-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 331975307X

This book gathers the latest research results of scientists from different countries who have made essential contributions to the novel analysis of cyber security. Addressing open problems in the cyber world, the book consists of two parts. Part I focuses on cyber operations as a new tool in global security policy, while Part II focuses on new cyber security technologies when building cyber power capabilities. The topics discussed include strategic perspectives on cyber security and cyber warfare, cyber security implementation, strategic communication, trusted computing, password cracking, systems security and network security among others.

System Overview of Cyber-Technology in a Digitally Connected Global Society

System Overview of Cyber-Technology in a Digitally Connected Global Society
Author: Joseph O. Esin
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2017-01-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1524657077

The author acknowledges the links between education, technology, network operating systems, data, and information transmission and communications, cybertechnology, culture of education, instruction, and learning. In essence, recognizing the correlation among the education and the world of codified technology, this book will assist in providing a deeper understanding and greater improvement of instructional methods and strategies. In addition, this book will provide a correlation between education and technology as a promising and systematic approach for moving away from or conventional methods of classroom instruction and learning endeavors. The readers, in essence, will see the integration of education and cybertechnology as a pinnacle of educational reform for current and future generations. Furthermore, the contents of this book also help expound the benefits and the broad range of possibilities that technology can offer in education, instruction, and the learning process. The proliferation of the uncertain telegraph and mechanized printing machines changed the quality of human writing. We can also expect the use of a well-synthesized educational technology textbook for instruction and learning to lead to the same startling changes in human society. It is the authors view that the anticipated changes should not assume any deficiency on the part of the professors, instructors, and allied educators. Rather, it should ascertain that educators need to be proficient in the use of technology to manage and deliver instruction in different subject areas, such as computer information technology, network technology, wired and wireless technology, and cyber security threats. The author firmly believes that current and future learners are essentially the conglomeration of unfurnished learner materials that are ready and willing to be furnished by the educational system.

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Author: Fred Turner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2010-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226817431

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, they embodied the rigid organization and mechanical conformity that made the military-industrial complex possible. But by the 1990s—and the dawn of the Internet—computers started to represent a very different kind of world: a collaborative and digital utopia modeled on the communal ideals of the hippies who so vehemently rebelled against the cold war establishment in the first place. From Counterculture to Cyberculture is the first book to explore this extraordinary and ironic transformation. Fred Turner here traces the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. Between 1968 and 1998, via such familiar venues as the National Book Award–winning Whole Earth Catalog, the computer conferencing system known as WELL, and, ultimately, the launch of the wildly successful Wired magazine, Brand and his colleagues brokered a long-running collaboration between San Francisco flower power and the emerging technological hub of Silicon Valley. Thanks to their vision, counterculturalists and technologists alike joined together to reimagine computers as tools for personal liberation, the building of virtual and decidedly alternative communities, and the exploration of bold new social frontiers. Shedding new light on how our networked culture came to be, this fascinating book reminds us that the distance between the Grateful Dead and Google, between Ken Kesey and the computer itself, is not as great as we might think.

Cyber-Marx

Cyber-Marx
Author: Nick Dyer-Witheford
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780252067952

In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power. He also shows how these sites and activities may become focal points of subversion and insurgency, as new means of communication vital for the smooth flow of capital also permit otherwise isolated and dispersed points of resistance to connect and combine with one another. Cutting through the smokescreen of high-tech propaganda, Dyer-Witheford predicts the advent of a reinvented, "autonomist" Marxism that will rediscover the possibility of a collective, communist transformation of society. Refuting the utopian promises of the information revolution, he discloses the real potentialities for a new social order in the form of a twenty-first-century communism based on the common sharing of wealth.

Information Technology for Peace and Security

Information Technology for Peace and Security
Author: Christian Reuter
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3658256524

This book offers an introduction to Information Technology with regard to peace, conflict, and security research, a topic that it approaches from natural science, technical and computer science perspectives. Following an initial review of the fundamental roles of IT in connection with peace, conflict and security, the contributing authors address the rise of cyber conflicts via information warfare, cyber espionage, cyber defence and Darknets. The book subsequently explores recent examples of cyber warfare, including: • The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s uranium refining capability • The hacking of the German Federal Parliament’s internal communication system • The Wannacry malware campaign, which used software stolen from a US security agency to launch ransomware attacks worldwide The book then introduces readers to the concept of cyber peace, including a discussion of confidence and security-building measures. A section on Cyber Arms Control draws comparisons to global efforts to control chemical warfare, to reduce the risk of nuclear war, and to prevent the militarization of space. Additional topics include the security of critical information infrastructures, and cultural violence and peace in social media. The book concludes with an outlook on the future role of IT in peace and security. Information Technology for Peace and Security breaks new ground in a largely unexplored field of study, and offers a valuable asset for a broad readership including students, educators and working professionals in computer science, IT security, peace and conflict studies, and political science.

Raising Humans in a Digital World

Raising Humans in a Digital World
Author: Diana Graber
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-01-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0814439802

The Internet can be a scary, dangerous place especially for children. This book shows parents how to help digital kids navigate this environment. Sexting, cyberbullying, revenge porn, online predators…all of these potential threats can tempt parents to snatch the smartphone or tablet out of their children’s hands. While avoidance might eliminate the dangers, that approach also means your child misses out on technology’s many benefits and opportunities. In Raising Humans in a Digital World, digital literacy educator Diana Graber shows how children must learn to handle the digital space through: developing social-emotional skills balancing virtual and real life building safe and healthy relationships avoiding cyberbullies and online predators protecting personal information identifying and avoiding fake news and questionable content becoming positive role models and leaders Raising Humans in a Digital World is packed with at-home discussion topics and enjoyable activities that any busy family can slip into their daily routine. Full of practical tips grounded in academic research and hands-on experience, today’s parents finally have what they’ve been waiting for—a guide to raising digital kids who will become the positive and successful leaders our world desperately needs.

Information Technology and Military Power

Information Technology and Military Power
Author: Jon R. Lindsay
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501749579

Militaries with state-of-the-art information technology sometimes bog down in confusing conflicts. To understand why, it is important to understand the micro-foundations of military power in the information age, and this is exactly what Jon R. Lindsay's Information Technology and Military Power gives us. As Lindsay shows, digital systems now mediate almost every effort to gather, store, display, analyze, and communicate information in military organizations. He highlights how personnel now struggle with their own information systems as much as with the enemy. Throughout this foray into networked technology in military operations, we see how information practice—the ways in which practitioners use technology in actual operations—shapes the effectiveness of military performance. The quality of information practice depends on the interaction between strategic problems and organizational solutions. Information Technology and Military Power explores information practice through a series of detailed historical cases and ethnographic studies of military organizations at war. Lindsay explains why the US military, despite all its technological advantages, has struggled for so long in unconventional conflicts against weaker adversaries. This same perspective suggests that the US retains important advantages against advanced competitors like China that are less prepared to cope with the complexity of information systems in wartime. Lindsay argues convincingly that a better understanding of how personnel actually use technology can inform the design of command and control, improve the net assessment of military power, and promote reforms to improve military performance. Warfighting problems and technical solutions keep on changing, but information practice is always stuck in between.

Advances in Cyber Security

Advances in Cyber Security
Author: D. Frank Hsu
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0823244563

As you read this your computer is in jeopardy of being hacked and your identity being stolen. How can you protect yourself? The world's foremost cyber security experts from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III to Special Assistant to the President Howard A. Schmidt, share critical practical knowledge on how the cyberspace ecosystem is structured, how it functions, and what we can do to protect it and ourselves from attack

The Cyber Effect

The Cyber Effect
Author: Mary Aiken
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2016
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0812997859

"From one of the world's leading experts in cyberpsychology--a discipline that combines psychology, forensics, and technology--comes a groundbreaking exploration of the impact of technology on human behavior. In the first book of its kind, Mary Aiken applies her expertise in cyber-behavioral analysis to a range of subjects, including criminal activity on the Deep Web and Darknet; deviant behavior; Internet addictions; the impact of technology on the developing child; teenagers and the Web; cyber-romance and cyber-friendships; cyberchondria; the future of artificial intelligence; and the positive effects on our digital selves, such as online altruism"--

Ethics and Technology

Ethics and Technology
Author: Herman T. Tavani
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0470509503

Offering insights and coverage of the field of cyberethics, this book introduces readers to issues in computer ethics. The author combines his years of experience in the field with coverage of concepts and real-world case studies.