We are all targets : how renegade hackers invented cyber war and unleashed an age of global chaos Cover Image

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We are all targets : how renegade hackers invented cyber war and unleashed an age of global chaos / Matt Potter.

Summary:

"The incredible untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780306925733
ISBN: 0306925737
Physical Description: viii, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Hachette Books, 2023.
Copyright: �2023.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-352).

Formatted Contents Note:

Part I: Empire of the invisible (how the Eastern internet was born) -- Pandora's box -- Rebel code -- Enter the web -- Hacker nation -- Part II: The children's crusade (how cyber war was won and lost, and not in the way we'd imagined) -- Electronic child soldiers -- Black jet down -- Chaos particle -- The birth of a global brand -- Horror show -- Alarms in Virginia -- A clash of cyber cultures -- Part III: Metastasis (how total war spread from the East and took over the West) -- The big bang -- The cyber mercenaries -- A troll is born -- Life on the wire -- The new Russian way of war -- Storms and deserts -- The Google archipelago -- Dark guest, red guest -- Ignorant armies -- darkness visible -- The end of everything.