Hacked

The Inside Story of America's Struggle to Secure Cyberspace

Charlie Mitchell

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781442255227
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Cyber Security
• Index: Computer Science

The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks of Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate America to address the growing threat, the hacks keep coming—each one more pernicious than the last—from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, the Middle East, and points unknown. The continuing attacks raise a deeply disturbing question: Is the issue simply beyond the reach of our government, political leaders, business leaders, and technology visionaries to resolve? In Hacked, veteran cybersecurity journalist Charlie Mitchell reveals the innovative, occasionally brilliant, and too-often hapless government and industry responses to growing cybersecurity threats. He examines the internal power struggles in the federal government, the paralysis on Capitol Hill, and the industry's desperate effort to stay ahead of both the bad guys and the government.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• “Carry Out Our Demand If You Want to Escape Us”
• The First Cyber President
• Sirens on Capitol Hill
• To Build a Framework
• The Department of Insecurity
• The Telecom Challenge
• The FTC, “Protecting America’s Consumers”
• Fear and Failure, Again, on Capitol Hill
• The Information-Sharing Matrix
• A New Congress Brings a New Energy to Cyber Debate
• The Promise and Peril of “Strong Encryption”
• Cyber Tensions Define the U.S.-China Relationship
• Help Wanted, Desperately, for Cybersecurity
• Senate Debate Takes Shape, Then—Surprise!—Stalls
• At Long Last, the Political System Arrives at an Answer
• The Unfinished Journey
• Author’s Note
• Bibliographical Essay
• Index
• About the Author