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1) The sentinel
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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 25
Language
English
Description
"It is close to midnight on a Saturday night when Jack Reacher gets off a bus at the Greyhound station in Nashville. Reacher is in no hurry. He has no appointments to keep. No people to see. No scores to settle. Not yet anyway. But in the early morning hours, under particular circumstances, a familiar thought will be snaking through his sharp, instinctual lizard brain: A voice in his head telling him to walk away. Of course, this wouldn't be the first...
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Language
English
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Journalist Mark Bowden delivers a look at the ongoing and largely unreported war taking place literally beneath our fingertips. When the Conficker computer worm was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Was it a platform for criminal profit, or a weapon? The worm, exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, grew at an astonishing rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xiv, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States is being bombarded with cyber-attacks. From the surge in ransomware groups targeting critical infrastructure to nation states compromising the software supply chain and corporate email servers, malicious cyber activities have reached an all-time high. Russia attracts the most attention, but China is vastly more sophisticated. They have a common interest in exploiting the openness of the Internet and social media-and our democracy-to...
Author
Series
Songs of the sage volume 1
Language
English
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In a world where language is no longer learned but streamed to neural implants, those who can't afford the streaming services live on the edges of society. Tech corporations control language and, thus, control everything. When a cyberattack leads to a global language outage, Europol detective Emyr Morgan is assigned to the case. But he soon learns that little is as it seems. He must find a way to distinguish fact from fiction and friend from foe to...
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English
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"The United States may seem safe from within but beyond its borders, a new enemy rises. An American ship has vanished. The president has tasked the new cyber-intelligence agency, Net Force, with finding out what happened to the vessel. But their investigation reveals a plan that could trigger a world war. Their only option is to strike first. Through the streets of New York, a secret city in Crimea and the depths of the South China Seas, Net Force...
6) The fifth domain: defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an urgent assessment of how governments, businesses, and everyday citizens can counter and prevent attacks by criminal hackers determined to create a digital war zone.
"There is much to fear in the dark corners of cyberspace. From well-covered stories like the Stuxnet attack which helped slow Iran's nuclear program, to lesser-known tales like EternalBlue, the 2017 cyber battle that closed hospitals in Britain and froze shipping crates in...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011, ©2011
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
320
Language
English
Description
"Over the Atlantic, an airliner's controls suddenly stop reacting. In Japan, an oil tanker runs aground when its navigational system fails. An in the Midwest, a nuclear power plant nearly becomes the next Chernobyl. At first, these computer failures seemunrelated. But Jeff Aiken, a former government analyst who saw the mistakes made before 9/11, fears that there may be a more serious attack coming. And he soon realizes that there isn't much time if...
8) The fox
Language
English
Description
Former chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service Adrian Weston is awoken in the middle of the night by a phone call from the prime minister. Her news is shocking: the Pentagon, the NSA, and the CIA have been hacked simultaneously, their seemingly impenetrable firewalls breached by an unknown enemy known only as "The Fox". Even more surprisingly, the culprit is revealed to be a young British teenager, Luke Jennings. He has no agenda, no secrets,...
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (46 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Live Free or Die Hard, the fourth chapter in the high-octane action franchise, a mastermind cyber-criminal holds America hostage by wreaking havoc via the Internet. It's a great thriller, but could this imagined scenario ever happen in real life?
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A former head of CIA's Russia analysis shows how Washington and Moscow may be headed toward nuclear annihilation. After years of unsuccessful post-Cold War efforts to forge a cooperative relationship, it is now clear that the U.S. and Russia have become competitors, not partners--no matter what some politicians would have the American public believe. And this competition is quickly spiraling into enmity thanks to new strategic weapons, shifts in...
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Series
Peter Rena and Randi Brooks volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Billionaire entrepreneur and President of the U.S., David Traynor calls upon ruthless DC fixers Peter Rena and Randi Brooks, who must help him salvage American politics while dealing with cyberattacks and a world on the cusp of enormous change.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 491 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Filled with spies, hackers, arms dealers, and a few unsung heroes, written like a thriller and a reference, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends is an astonishing feat of journalism. Based on years of reporting and hundreds of interviews, The New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth lifts the curtain on a market in shadow, revealing the urgent threat faced by us all if we cannot bring the global cyber arms race to heel.
Zero day: a software bug...
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English
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"Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expert P.W. Singer and Council on Foreign Relations fellow Emerson Brooking"--
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Series
Tom Clancy's Net Force (Adult series) volume 11
Language
English
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Description
The number one threat to our nation's security is in cyberspace. The new US president wants to tackle the urgent problem head-on and launches a top secret line of defense: Net Force. But before the organization can be announced, the country is hit by an unprecedented, two-pronged terror attack. Not yet empowered by Congress nor embraced by a dubious intelligence community, still untested, unproven and officially unnamed, Net Force's elite group of...
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Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 17
Language
English
Description
"Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyone else. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery: His covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has been hit with a ransomware attack, and there's some connection between the Taliban and...
Publisher
FUNimation Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2032, advances in cybernetic technology and genetic research have opened the world to possibilities once only dreamed of. Humans can be fitted with cybernetic modifications, download their brains into permanent robot bodies, or bring home their own intimate robotic companion. It's a life of luxury. Or so it seems. A rash of gruesome murders begins to plague the city and with every lead comes more questions. The culprits, the beloved robotic...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon that could reach all of the United States, Russians have mastered a new form of information warfare that undercuts democracy, and the role of China in the global community remains unclear. There will always be value to experience...
Author
Series
Don Riley novels volume 1
Language
English
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A terrorist breach of the computer systems of the three most powerful navies is about to set them on a collision course for World War III. Rafiq Roshed is one of the most wanted men in the world. A terrorist with a virulent grudge against the West, he's disappeared into North Korea where he quietly launches cyber sneak attacks in service of Kim Jong-un. But now he's about to unleash his virtual masterpiece--a computer virus that, once inserted into...
Author
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Finding himself alone in a posh New York City hotel room for the night, Aidan does what any red-blooded seventeen-year-old would do-- he tries to hook up with someone new. But that lapse in judgment leads to him waking up next to a dead guy, which sparks an epic case of mistaken identity. Now he's on the run from federal agents -- and a cyber-terrorist group who will stop at nothing to find him.
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