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Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare
Penguin Press
October 2011
On Sale: September 29, 2011
320 pages
ISBN: 159420313X
EAN: 9781594203138
Kindle: B0054TVVOG
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Non-Fiction
A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes
behind the headlines to explore America's next great
battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that
identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the
dire consequences for government, business, and individuals. Shortly after 9/11, Joel Brenner entered the inner sanctum
of American espionage, first as the inspector general of the
National Security Agency, then as the head of
counterintelligence for the director of national
intelligence. He saw at close range the battleground on
which our adversaries are now attacking us-cyberspace. We
are at the mercy of a new generation of spies who operate
remotely from China, the Middle East, Russia, even France,
among many other places. These operatives have already shown
their ability to penetrate our power plants, steal our
latest submarine technology, rob our banks, and invade the
Pentagon's secret communications systems. Incidents like the WikiLeaks posting of secret U.S. State
Department cables hint at the urgency of this problem, but
they hardly reveal its extent or its danger. Our government
and corporations are a "glass house," all but transparent to
our adversaries. Counterfeit computer chips have found their
way into our fighter aircraft; the Chinese stole a new radar
system that the navy spent billions to develop; our own
soldiers used intentionally corrupted thumb drives to
download classified intel from laptops in Iraq. And much more. Dispatches from the corporate world are just as dire. In
2008, hackers lifted customer files from the Royal Bank of
Scotland and used them to withdraw $9 million in half an
hour from ATMs in the United States, Britain, and Canada. If
that was a traditional heist, it would be counted as one of
the largest in history. Worldwide, corporations lose on
average $5 million worth of intellectual property apiece
annually, and big companies lose many times that. The structure and culture of the Internet favor spies over
governments and corporations, and hackers over privacy, and
we've done little to alter that balance. Brenner draws on
his extraordinary background to show how to right this
imbalance and bring to cyberspace the freedom,
accountability, and security we expect elsewhere in our lives. In America the Vulnerable, Brenner offers a chilling and
revelatory appraisal of the new faces of war and
espionage-virtual battles with dangerous implications for
government, business, and all of us.
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