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 organizations 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, how hackers think as well as giving invaluable advice on staying vigilant and avoiding the security mistakes and oversights that can lead to downfall. No organization is safe but by understanding the context within which we now live and what the hacks of the future might look like, you can minimize the threat. In Cyber Wars, you will learn how hackers in a TK Maxx parking lot managed to steal 94m credit card details costing the organization $1bn; how a 17 year old leaked the data of 157, 000 TalkTalk customers causing a reputational disaster; how Mirai can infect companies' Internet of Things devices and let hackers control them; how a sophisticated malware attack on Sony caused corporate embarrassment and company-wide shut down; and how a phishing attack on Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta's email affected the outcome of the 2016 US election.
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INDEX
30-second code system 78–79
802.11b standard 102–03
Adobe Flash Player 137–38
advanced persistent threat (APT) 56
AirDefense 111
Aldridge, Keith 158–59
AlphaGo 220–21
America Online (AOL)
phishing history 75
TalkTalk takeover 154–55
Anderson, Ross 222, 223
Angler 140
Anonymous
attacks by 45–46
Barr’s interview, impact of 49–51
chatrooms 48–49
HBGary Federal, attack on 56–59
HBGary Federal website after attack 61
hive mind 49
identification of members via social media 47–51
media stories on HBGary Federal attack 60
Penny Leavy-Hoglund, chatroom meeting with 62–63
significance of HBGary Federal attack for 63–64
anti-virus systems 139
antivirus industry, growth of 217
Anubhav, Ankit 203–05
AOL
phishing history 75
TalkTalk takeover 154–55
Apache Struts 211
APT (advanced persistent threat) 56
APT28 80
artificial intelligence (AI) systems 220–21
Assange, Julian 83–84, 88
attachments 136
backups 142
Bagle 184
Barr, Aaron 45, 46–48, 4...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 01 Introduction: The cyber wars
- 02 Lights out: Sony Pictures
- 03 Anonymous attacks: HBGary
- 04 John Podesta’s inbox:The Democratic presidential campaign
- 05 Open house: TJX
- 06 ‘It is time to pay’: Ransomware
- 07 Called to account: TalkTalk
- 08 The internet of hacked things: Mirai
- 09 Hacking: The present, the future
- Index
- Backcover
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