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Fancy Bear goes phishing the dark history of the information age, in five extraordinary hacks

It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how it works. And without understanding how our information is stored, used, and protected, we are vulnerable to having it exploited. In Fancy Bear Goes Phishing, Scott J. Shapiro draws on his popular Yale Univ...

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Main Author: Shapiro, Scott J. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
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Hacking > Case studies.
Phishing > Case studies.
Internet > Security measures.
Internet in espionage.
Case studies.
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505 0 0 |t Introduction: The Brilliant Project --  |t The great worm --  |t How the tortoise hacked Achilles --  |t The Bulgarian virus factory --  |t The father of dragons --  |t Winner take all --  |t Snoop Dogg does his laundry --  |t How to mudge --  |t Kill chain --  |t The Minecraft wars --  |t Attack of the killer toasters --  |t Conclusion: The death of solutionism --  |t Epilogue. 
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