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Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

By : Dr. Chase Cunningham
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Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies

By: Dr. Chase Cunningham

Overview of this book

The era of cyber warfare is now upon us. What we do now and how we determine what we will do in the future is the difference between whether our businesses live or die and whether our digital self survives the digital battlefield. Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies takes you on a journey through the myriad of cyber attacks and threats that are present in a world powered by AI, big data, autonomous vehicles, drones video, and social media. Dr. Chase Cunningham uses his military background to provide you with a unique perspective on cyber security and warfare. Moving away from a reactive stance to one that is forward-looking, he aims to prepare people and organizations to better defend themselves in a world where there are no borders or perimeters. He demonstrates how the cyber landscape is growing infinitely more complex and is continuously evolving at the speed of light. The book not only covers cyber warfare, but it also looks at the political, cultural, and geographical influences that pertain to these attack methods and helps you understand the motivation and impacts that are likely in each scenario. Cyber Warfare – Truth, Tactics, and Strategies is as real-life and up-to-date as cyber can possibly be, with examples of actual attacks and defense techniques, tools. and strategies presented for you to learn how to think about defending your own systems and data.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Index
Appendix – Major Cyber Incidents Throughout 2019

ReadFakes

Aside from video and audio content, there is only one additional medium that provides information and daily – if not hourly – data to the world at large: text. We read the news, we read blogs, and we all gather our preferred information from sources that produce and generate textual information. This information can come in a variety of formats, but it is the largest amount of information that is available to the masses. If we accept that truth, then we also must accept that it is possible for a sufficiently powerful and well-tuned ML system to generate textual information that could be used for malicious purposes and disinformation campaigns.

Machines are now just as adept at generating textual information and data as humans are. In some cases, machines have been proven to produce text that is as poetic and narrative as that of Shakespeare. One researcher, Andrej Karpathy, used a relatively small sampling of past literature attributed...