Random House New Releases - Computers - Internet - Security

Black Code by Ronald J. Deibert

2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00

Black Code Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert

Hardcover, 320 pages | Signal | Social Science - Media Studies; Computers - Internet - Security | $29.99 | 978-0-7710-2533-4 (0-7710-2533-5)

Cyberspace is all around us. We depend on it for everything we do. We have reengineered our business, governance, and social relations around a planetary network unlike any before it. But there are dangers looming, and malign forces are threatening to transform this extraordinary domain.

In Black Code, Ronald J. Deibert, a leading expert on digital technology, security, and human rights, lifts the lid on cyberspace and shows what’s at stake for Internet users and citizens. As cyberspace develops in unprecedented ways, powerful agents are scrambling for control. Predatory cyber criminal gangs such as Koobface have made social media their stalking ground. The discovery of Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by Israel and the United States and aimed at Iran’s nuclear facilities, showed that state cyberwar is now a very real possibility. Governments and corporations are in collusion and are setting the rules of the road behind closed doors.

This is not the way it was supposed to be. The Internet’s original promise of a global commons of shared knowledge and communications is now under threat.

Drawing on the first-hand experiences of one of the most important protagonists in the battle — the Citizen Lab and its global network of frontline researchers, who have spent more than a decade cracking cyber espionage rings and uncovering attacks on citizens and NGOs worldwide — Black Code takes readers on a fascinating journey into the battle for cyberspace. Thought-provoking, compelling, and sometimes frightening, it is a wakeup call to citizens who have come to take the Internet for granted. Cyberspace is ours, it is what we make of it, Deibert argues, and we need to act now before it slips through our grasp.

Black Code by Ronald J. Deibert

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

Black Code Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert

eBook, 320 pages | Signal | Social Science - Media Studies; Computers - Internet - Security | $14.99 | 978-0-7710-2534-1 (0-7710-2534-3)

Creeping Failure by Jeffrey Hunker

2011-09-27T00:30:00-05:00

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Media Studies; Computers - Internet - Security | $19.95 | 978-0-7710-4024-5 (0-7710-4024-5)

The Internet is often called a superhighway, but it may be more analogous to a city: an immense tangle of streets, highways, and interchanges, lined with homes and businesses, playgrounds and theatres. We may not physically live in this city, but most of us spend a lot of time there, and even pay rents and fees to hold property in it.

But the Internet is not a city of the 21st century. Jeffrey Hunker, an internationally known expert in cyber-security and counter-terrorism policy, argues that the Internet of today is, in many ways, equivalent to the burgeoning cities of the early Industrial Revolution: teeming with energy but also with new and previously unimagined dangers, and lacking the technical and political infrastructures to deal with these problems. In a world where change of our own making has led to unexpected consequences, why have we failed, at our own peril, to address these consequences?

Drawing on his experience as a top expert in information security, Hunker sets out to answer this critical question in Creeping Failure. Hunker takes a close look at the "creeping failures" that have kept us in a state of cyber insecurity: how and why they happened, and most crucially, how they can be fixed. And he arrives at some stunning conclusions about the dramatic measures that we will need to accomplish this.

This groundbreaking book is an essential first step toward understanding the World Wide Web in a larger context as we try to build a safer Internet "city." But it also raises issues that are relevant far outside the online realm: for example, how can we work together to create not just new policy, but new kinds of policy? Creeping Failure calls for nothing less than a basic rethinking of the Internet — and of how we solve problems together.

From the Hardcover edition.

Creeping Failure by Jeffrey Hunker

2010-08-24T00:30:00-05:00

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker

Hardcover, 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Media Studies; Computers - Internet - Security | $25.95 | 978-0-7710-4148-8 (0-7710-4148-9)

Creeping Failure by Jeffrey Hunker

2010-08-24T00:30:00-05:00

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker

eBook | McClelland & Stewart | Social Science - Media Studies; Computers - Internet - Security | $13.99 | 978-1-55199-351-5 (1-55199-351-1)

Random House New Releases - Computers - Internet - Security

Black Code by Ronald J. Deibert

Black Code Inside the Battle for CyberspaceWritten by Ronald J. Deibert

Black Code by Ronald J. Deibert

Black Code Inside the Battle for CyberspaceWritten by Ronald J. Deibert

Creeping Failure by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix ItWritten by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix ItWritten by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix ItWritten by Jeffrey Hunker

Black Code Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert

Black Code Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
Written by Ronald J. Deibert

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker

Creeping Failure How We Broke the Internet and What We Can Do to Fix It
Written by Jeffrey Hunker