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The rise of new technologies in our lives, which has taken us from powerful mobile phones to fitness trackers and smart appliances in under a decade, has also raised the need for everyone who uses these to protect themselves from cyber scams and hackers. Every new device and online service you use that improves your life also opens new doors for attackers looking to discover your passwords, banking accounts, personal photos, and anything else you want to keep secret.

Ob Sie wollen oder nicht - jede Ihrer Online-Aktivitäten wird beobachtet und analysiert. Sie haben keine Privatsphäre. Im Internet ist jeder Ihrer Klicks für Unternehmen, Regierungen und kriminelle Hacker uneingeschränkt sichtbar. Ihr Computer, Ihr Smartphone, Ihr Auto, Ihre Alarmanlage, ja sogar Ihr Kühlschrank bieten potenzielle Angriffspunkte für den Zugriff auf Ihre Daten. Niemand kennt sich besser aus mit dem Missbrauch persönlicher Daten als Kevin Mitnick.

Die Internetseite Silk Road vertreibt Cannabis, Kokain und Amphetamine. Die Webseite ist Teil des sogenannten Darknets, also eines weitläufigen Bereichs des Internets, das nicht jedem unbedarften Nutzer zugänglich ist. Denn viele Darknet-Seiten sind nur für eingeladene Mitglieder oder über eine spezielle Technik erreichbar: TOR.

In this new book, author and Internet expert Adam Engst shows you, in 10 quick steps, the most effective way to stop spam, how to protect your e-mail address from a deluge of spam, how to avoid areas of the Internet that spammers use to find you, what to do for filtering, how to use yourISP's available spam tools, and more.

You know them. You hate them. Make pop-up ads a thing of the past. Listen to this great advice for blasting away those nasty pop-up ads.

Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet. Once considered a borderless and chaotic virtual landscape, the Internet is now home to the forces of international law and order. It's not just computer hackers and cyber crooks who lurk in the dark corners of the Web - the cops are there, too. In The Internet Police, Ars Technica editor Nate Anderson takes readers on a behind-the-screens tour of landmark cybercrime cases, revealing how criminals continue to find digital and legal loopholes even as police hurry to cinch them closed.

The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyber war against us-and how we've learned to fight back With each passing year, the internet-linked attacks on America's interests have grown in both frequency and severity. Overmatched by our military, countries like North Korea, China, Iran...

The most extensive account yet of the lives of cybercriminals and the vast international industry they have created, deeply sourced and based on field research in the world's technology-crime hot spots.

This book is written by two of the leading terrorist experts in the world. Hacking ISIS will explain in graphic detail how ISIS produces religious cultism, recruits vulnerable young people of all religions and nationalities and disseminates their brutal social media to the world. More, the book will map out the cyberspace-level tactics on how ISIS spreads its terrifying content, how it distributes tens of thousands of pieces of propaganda daily and is winning the battle in cyberspace and how to stop it in its tracks.

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers.

In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs, who began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly steal financial data from consumers.

Human Security describes the steps organizations should take to protect their networks from intruders, emphasizing what employees can do to defend their network. The points are crisp, simple, and eminently doable with a CEO or board chairperson's support. A must listen for organization IT and leaders.

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance - the collection of our data by governments, corporations, advertisers, and hackers. To the toolkit of privacy-protecting techniques and projects, they propose adding obfuscation: the deliberate use of ambiguous, confusing, or misleading information to interfere with surveillance and data-collection projects.

Ein neuer Wissenschaftskrimi von Simon Singh: der immerwährende Kampf um die sicherste Methode, geheime Botschaften zu verschlüsseln - oder zu knacken.

The Internet today connects roughly 2.7 billion people around the world, and booming interest in the "Internet of things" could result in 75 billion devices connected to the web by 2020. The myth of cyberspace as a digital utopia has long been put to rest. Governments are increasingly developing smarter ways of asserting their national authority in cyberspace in an effort to control the flow, organization, and ownership of information.

Adam Levin, a longtime consumer advocate and identity fraud expert, is your guide to this brave new world. By telling memorable stories and extracting the relevant lessons, he offers a strategy for dealing with these risks. You may not be able to prevent identity theft, but you certainly shouldn't wait until it happens to take action. Levin's approach is defined by the three M's: minimizing risk, monitoring your identity, and managing the damage.

Fascinating and highly listenable, Digital Resilience opens with the infamous 2013 Target attack, which compromised the credit card information of 40 million customers. In hindsight, the hack (like most today) was preventable. Data theft. Downed servers. Malware. Even human error can trigger cyber events anytime from anywhere around the globe. This powerful guide provides the resilience-building strategies you need to prevail - no matter what strikes.

The protection of cyberspace has become a vital national interest because of its importance both to the economy and to military power. An attacker may tamper with networks to steal information for money or to disrupt operations. Future wars are likely to be carried out, in part or perhaps entirely, in cyberspace. It might therefore seem obvious that maneuvering in cyberspace is like maneuvering in other media, but nothing would be more misleading. Cyberspace has its own laws.

The third part in Pope's Financial Alert series, this hot topic is sure to provoke debate. The theft of identity through credit card scams, "phishing", unscrupulous charitable agencies, and dishonest employees is epidemic, and only growing worse. Pope gives the alarming statistics and then outlines the real, practical steps an individual or family can take to avoid becoming a victim.

New technologies have provided both incredible convenience and new threats. The same kinds of digital networks that allow you to hail a ride using your smartphone let power grid operators control a country's electricity - and these personal, corporate, and government systems are all vulnerable. In Ukraine, unknown hackers shut off electricity to nearly 230,000 people for six hours. North Korean hackers destroyed networks at Sony Pictures in retaliation for a film that mocked Kim Jong-un.