Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld |  | Author: Jeffrey Carr
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What people are saying about Inside Cyber Warfare
"The necessary handbook for the 21st century."
--Lewis Shepherd, Chief Tech Officer and Senior Fellow, Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments
"A must-read for policy makers and leaders who need to understand the big-picture landscape of cyber war."
--Jim Stogdill, CTO, Mission Services Accenture
You may have heard about "cyber warfare" in the news, but do you really know what it is? This book provides fascinating and disturbing details on how nations, groups, and individuals throughout the world are using the Internet as an attack platform to gain military, political, and economic advantages over their adversaries. You'll learn how sophisticated hackers working on behalf of states or organized crime patiently play a high-stakes game that could target anyone, regardless of affiliation or nationality. Inside Cyber Warfare goes beyond the headlines of attention-grabbing DDoS attacks and takes a deep look inside multiple cyber-conflicts that occurred from 2002 through summer 2009. - Learn how cyber attacks are waged in open conflicts, including recent hostilities between Russia and Georgia, and Israel and Palestine
- Discover why Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, Vkontakte, and other sites on the social web are mined by the intelligence services of many nations
- Read about China's commitment to penetrate the networks of its technologically superior adversaries as a matter of national survival
- Find out why many attacks originate from servers in the United States, and who's responsible
- Learn how hackers are "weaponizing" malware to attack vulnerabilities at the application level
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 Like a personal intelligence briefing on the highest-end threats January 18, 2010
David J. Bianco (Williamsburg, VA United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
At the time of this writing, one of the biggest stories in the media is that Google and several other large technology companies were attacked by Chinese hackers. Although this seems to have caught almost everyone by surprise, it's no surprise to those of us in the trenches, responding to these types of incidents every day. "Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld" is by far the best available guide to this highly sophisticated threatscape.
The book's author is Jeffrey Carr, author of the well-known IntelFusion blog ([...]) and founder of Project Grey Goose, both of which provide high quality intelligence analyses on a number of cyberwar-related topics. The book reviews, organizes and expands upon many issues already covered on his blog, but does so in a way that actually adds value. This isn't a retread of old postings; it's an entirely new creation.
I used the term "intelligence analysis", and that's really what this book is: one big dossier on the means, motives, opportunities and identities of some of the major players in the cyber warfare arena. Specifically, this book's focus is on nation-states with known cyberwar capabilities, such as China, Russia and the United States. However, there is also some limited coverage both of other countries (e.g., North Korea) and other actors, such as organized crime.
The first couple of chapters begin by providing some basic background on cyberwar, defining terms, citing recent examples (such as the Russian attacks on Georgian websites in 2008) and discussing the transition from direct action by states to state-sponsored third party actors. This last concept is perhaps the most critical one in the entire book: states rarely do their own dirty work anymore. They tend to work through third parties, which is much less risky because it offers them plausible deniability. This is a major feature of today's cyberwar, and the book does an excellent job explaining why this happens and what the ramifications are for the victims of these attacks. This is a critical theme that carries through much of the rest of the book.
Chapters 3 and 4 focus more on the legalities of cyber warfare, definitions and relevant treaties. In fact, Chapter 4 (Responding to International Cyber Attacks as Acts of War) is one of the standout sections of the book. Written by guest author Lt. Cdr. Matthew Sklerov, USN, this chapter draws on numerous examples of case law and legal opinions to make a compelling case that the best defense against a cyberwar is to actively identify the aggressor and to attack them right back. Readers conditioned to think of legal arguments as dry and boring are in for a real treat, as this is quite a fascinating read.
The next several chapters establish a framework for performing intelligence investigations into the sources and motives behind cyber attacks, then explore several fruitful mechanisms for performing this research, such as by performing reconnaissance on relevant hacker forums, building social network graphs and the ever-popular "follow the money" approach. In doing so, Carr often shows how these mechanisms are really double-edged swords, providing as much or more benefit to the adversary as to the investigator. You can find some of this material elsewhere (Hacking: The Next Generation (Animal Guide) has quite a lot to say about social networks, for example), but in context with the rest of the book, these chapters still work quite well.
Finally, the last few chapters explore the role of cyberwar at the national level. Carr discusses and gives examples of relevant military doctrine from Russia, China and the US, showing how each nation views the key questions from different perspectives. Chapter 13 (Advice for Policy Makers from the Field) is particularly interesting, as three prominent experts each tackle one controversial cyberwar issue and give advice directly to policy makers, using this book as a sort of open letter.
"Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld" is the best book I've seen for those of us charged with defending against the highest-end threats to information security. It provides a comprehensive intelligence briefing on actors, capabilities, motivations and possible responses to acts of cyberwar. I highly recommend this for government, military and corporate readers who are responsible for either securing their own networks or for setting security policy. The threat is real, and these groups are active. Inside Cyber Warfare is the guide you need to help you understand the context in which your organization operates on the modern battlefield.
Welcome to Cyber world war 1 April 7, 2010
Sacramento Book Review (Sacramento, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In //Inside Cyber Warfare//, author Jeffrey Carr details how acts of violence are carried out via the Internet. What the reader gets are some examples of how cyber warfare has been carried out in the past, and how governments have used it against each other. Carr also discusses what types of cyber attacks constitute armed attacks. Carr also details state versus non-state (meaning carried out by an individual, not a state-sponsored) cyber attacks. Carr does a great job of explaining the various legal questions about cyber attacks and legal versus illegal retaliation by a government.
Why is all this important? Readers will gain an understanding of how a victimized government can respond according to various U.N. resolutions. Carr also discusses the use of social networking sites such as Twitter, MySpace and Facebook, where there a lot of information is available that can be accessed anonymously and used for targeting individuals in the military who share their profiles on these sites. Carr's expertise is unquestioned. The book is very well written and researched and an informative read.
Reviewed by Marc Filippelli
Good Cyber Intel reading December 31, 2009
Jeffrey A Bowler
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Mr Carr is an authority on tracking cyber incidents and the cyber warrior's that are taking the battle field to the Internet.
As soon as I found out this book had been released I ordered it from Amazon with next day delivery. I finished reading it the day it arrived. GREAT BOOK, congrats.
Critique: The author referred to the same examples over and over again. I would have liked more technical details on the examples used (down to the digital network intelligence level).
Overall great book and I also enjoy reading the authors web page, IntelFusion. Keep up the great work.
Cyber Warfare Ripped From The Headlines and Explained February 26, 2010
Ira Laefsky (Philadelphia, PA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Seldom would I describe a guidebook from the excellent O'Reilly Technology Series as "Ripped from the Headlines"; but this fast-paced
news analysis and technology public policy book is just that. It describes the behavior methods and practices of "State" and "Non-State" Actors on the International scene as they exploit the weaknesses of the Internet and Web Infrastructure for Political and Criminal purposes. It describes in a moderate level of technical detail the exploits of political and criminal hacker teams, some working for their own profit and political purposes, others under the direct authority of a Nation State especially during the recent period of 2002-2009 in the Middle East, China and the states of the FSU. The author Jeffry Carr is a leading analyst of Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism, the Principal of the Grey Logic Consulting firm that addresses the needs of large companies and governments, and author of the widely read IntelFusion blog.
Other reviewers may have been confused by the nature of the subject matter addressed by this short but excellent and well-written volume it is not a technologist's guide to hacking activities, nor is is it a spy novel, but it carefully and interestingly relates the dimensions of a current political and economic problem brought about by the activities of political entities, criminal and terroristic elements. It will enable the reader to become well informed about an important Technology and Public Policy issue which pervades today's headlines.
--Ira Laefsky
MSE/MBA IT Consultant and Former Senior Staff Member of Arthur D. Little and DIGITAL Equipment
Right up there! January 8, 2010
S. Fry (Fla.)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Read most of what's been made available in the public domain when it comes to cyber warfare et al ever since Winn Schwartau published his first book - this book ranks right up there with the best of the literature dealing with this oft maltreated topic. Definitely one of 'the must-reads'.
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