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  • Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age
  • Written by: Susan Landau
  • Narrated by: Tamara Marston
  • Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Listening In

Written by: Susan Landau
Narrated by: Tamara Marston
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A cybersecurity expert and former Google privacy analyst's urgent call to protect devices and networks against malicious hackers and misinformed policymakers.

New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone let power grid operators control a country's electricity - and these personal, corporate, and government systems are all vulnerable. In Ukraine, unknown hackers shut off electricity to nearly 230,000 people for six hours. North Korean hackers destroyed networks at Sony Pictures in retaliation for a film that mocked Kim Jong-un. And Russian cyberattackers leaked Democratic National Committee emails in an attempt to sway a US presidential election.

And yet despite such documented risks, government agencies, whose investigations and surveillance are stymied by encryption, push for a weakening of protections. In this accessible and riveting book, Susan Landau makes a compelling case for the need to secure our data, explaining how we must maintain cybersecurity in an insecure age.

©2017 Susan Landau (P)2017 Audible, Inc.
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Interesting stories. Different viewpoint.

Interesting information. Kept me listening. Unlike other sources which detail the China threat, the author feels the Russia threat is greater. This may be due to the author's anxiety about the Russian hack of the Clinton and DNC emails in 2016. She returns to this incident many, many times.

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