San Antonio College Library

Identifies some of the dangers identified with Internet use, discussing cyberterrorism and information warfare, computer viruses and other destructive software, identity theft, and online relationships, and offers advice on how to detect and prevent such problems.

We'd like to think they're invincible, but America's power stations, water supplies, financial systems, and military communications are all vulnerable to attack. And the most pressing threat isn't from bombs or other physical dangers-it's from computer hacking. What can be done to protect our infrastructure and prevent a devastating digital assault? To find out, this CNBC Original documentary goes to the frontlines of the war on cybercrime and cyber-terrorism....

"Written by former U.S. intelligence officer Dan Verton, Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism investigates how cyber-terrorism could occur, what the global and financial implications are, the impact this has on privacy and civil liberties, and how to prepare for and prevent cyber attacks. The book is packed with revealing interviews and commentary from leading government authorities on national security, including Tom Ridge, James Gilmore,...

"This work examines and refines some of the common mythologies about cyber war and the role of social media in conflict, while contributing new perspective to the literature about such factors as kinetic effects and the implications of data as an information operations battlespace"--Provided by publisher.

"The book highlights international efforts in cyber environment regulation, reviews the best practices of the leading cyber powers and their controversial approaches, urges for responsible state behaviour. It also proposes information security and cyber defence solutions and suggests definitions for selected conflicting cyber terms. The disruptive potential of cyber tools merging with military weapons is examined from the technical point of view,...

"Tom Graham has spent twenty years as America's top counterterrorist operative. But this attack was something neither Graham nor America were prepared for. An attack via computer, and suddenly a new word enters the American mainstream, cyberterror. Enlisting the aid of the FBI's Karen Frost, a special agent who has never played by the rules, and Michael Patrick Ryan, Stanford computer whiz, Graham tracks one of the hackers to an address in Florida....

"Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, "Twitter wars" produce real-world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the fate of nations. War, tech, and politics have blurred into a new kind of battlespace that plays out on our smartphones. P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking tackle...

Discusses the threat of cyberwarfare and how it would best be countered.