Internet Security

"Safeguard: Practical Steps for Digital Privacy and Online Safety" by Sage Ellison offers a comprehensive guide to enhancing your online security and privacy in today’s digital world. As the threat to personal information rises, this book addresses common concerns such as identity theft, phishing scams, and the overwhelming complexity of cybersecurity jargon. Ellison provides a clear roadmap for individuals looking to protect their online presence, emphasizing community awareness and proactive measures.

This audiobook brings together current cases of cyber intrusions (1996 to 2018) and provides the listener with an understanding of their societal impact and shows that cyberattacks have morphed into tools deployed by nation states. The book brings together the fields of technology, psychology, and discourse analysis/semiotics. It also provides guidance and policy on prevention of the use of cyberweapons.

In Free Is Bad, digital marketing entrepreneur John Marshall explores the web industry's early history and its search for viable business models. It's an investigation of how an evolutionary accident in the design of the web resulted in the ad-tech industry, enabling "free" as the default model for technology products like search and email, and for media products like news and entertainment.

Cyber Wars gives you the dramatic inside stories of some of the world's biggest cyber attacks. These are the game-changing hacks that make organisations around the world tremble and leaders stop and consider just how safe they really are. Charles Arthur provides a gripping account of why each hack happened, what techniques were used, what the consequences were and how they could have been prevented. Cyber attacks are some of the most frightening threats currently facing business leaders, and this book provides a deep insight into understanding how they work.

The Internet today connects roughly 2.7 billion people around the world, and booming interest in the "Internet of things" could result in 75 billion devices connected to the web by 2020. The myth of cyberspace as a digital utopia has long been put to rest. Governments are increasingly developing smarter ways of asserting their national authority in cyberspace in an effort to control the flow, organization, and ownership of information.

This audiobook recounts case studies to show the types of threats we face and provides a comprehensive coverage of risk management tactics and strategies to protect yourself against such nefarious threat actors. These include key mitigation and controls for information security or security and HR-related professionals.

Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to "build out" democracy into cyberspace.

Summer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for A&E. Ambulances are grounded. Computer screens turn on spontaneously and warnings appear. Employees who desperately pull the plugs are too late. Restarting is pointless; the computers are locked. And now the attackers ask each victim for money. This is hijack software. It is just one example of how vulnerable the digital world has made us.

It's only a matter of time - the modern notion of privacy is quickly evaporating because of technological advancement and social engagement. Whether we like it or not, all our actions and communications are going to be revealed for everyone to see. Exposed: How Revealing Your Data and Eliminating Privacy Increases Trust and Liberates Humanity takes a controversial and insightful look at the concept of privacy and persuasively argues that preparing for a post-private future is better than exacerbating the painful transition by attempting to delay the inevitable.

Three audiobooks in one deal: book 1: How to Establish Effective Security Management Functions; book 2: How to Apply the NIST Risk Management Framework; book 3: How to Manage Risk, Using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. You will learn in Book 1: objectives of security management, security management principles, defense in depth, how to apply security controls, and security control functions.

Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait - wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindfulness and overcome online helplessness - the feeling that tech is out of your control - with tips for handling cybersecurity, creepy ads, untrustworthy information, and much more.

Das Hörbuch, von dem Facebook nicht will, dass Sie es hören! NSA-Skandal, Wahlmanipulationen, Cambridge Analytica, Trump... Das ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs! Die renommierten New York Times-Reporterinnen Sheera Frenkel und Cecilia Kang gewähren einen bisher einzigartigen Einblick in den mächtigsten und undurchschaubarsten Konzern der Welt. Ausgehend von ihrer langjährigen investigativen Recherche, in der sie über Hunderte von Interviews führten, zeigen uns die Autorinnen ein Facebook, das wir so bislang nicht kannten.

Using lessons from tested and proven disciplines like military kill-chain analysis, counterterrorism analysis, industrial safety programs, and more, Ira Winkler and Dr. Tracy Celaya's You CAN Stop Stupid provides a methodology to analyze potential losses and determine appropriate countermeasures to implement.

Cybersecurity as a whole can be overwhelming for startup founders. Start-Up Secure breaks down the essentials so you can determine what is right for your start-up and your customers. You'll learn techniques, tools, and strategies that will ensure data security for yourself, your customers, your funders, and your employees. Pick and choose the suggestions that make the most sense for your situation-based on the solid information in this book.

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance - the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy-protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data-collection projects.

News breaks all the time that hackers have attacked another company. Media outlets regularly cover cyber events. The President issues executive orders, and Congress explores cyber legislation. With all these events happening, business leaders must ask: what does this mean for my business and me?

Computer engineer, Selina Co, becomes a hacker and actress who scams the scammer and captures his real information. Join Selina's adventure and her interaction with lawyers, police, hackers, banks and organizations...But...why did this computer engineer fall victim in the first place, when she was not even in love with the fraudster? Will Selina be able to save the love of her life, Jason, who is believed to be in another romance scam?

A day rarely goes by without hearing about someone being scammed, manipulated, or even physically assaulted. Maybe you’ve been a victim yourself—left feeling violated and frustrated. But with the right knowledge and strategies, you don’t have to live in fear. Being Savvy means staying one step ahead—whether it’s spotting when someone is trying to overcharge or deceive you, protecting yourself from identity theft after a stolen phone, or shutting down intimidation before it escalates. You will know how to handle threats before they become problems.

A grounding exploration of how our online prowess shapes the very essence of democracy The electronic age compels us to confront the delicate balance between the convenience of constant connectivity and the protection of personal privacy, security, and democracy itself. Presented as a two-fold...

According to the White House, there are 700,000 cybersecurity positions open today. Using the techniques in this series, you can be a part of one of the fastest, highest-salary career paths in IT.