A startlingly original tale of heartbreak and suspense

A car tumbles down a snowy ravine. Accident or suicide?

On the other side of the world, a young woman walks out of a sandstorm in sub-Saharan Africa. In the labyrinth of the Niger Delta, a young boy learns to survive by navigating through the gas flares and oil spills of a ruined landscape. In the seething heat of Lagos City, a criminal cartel scours the internet looking for victims.

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External cyber-attacks are on the rise and IT security and business professionals must remain vigilant in their effort to defend critical systems and networks from being victimized by cyber-criminals and nation sponsored cyber-terrorism. In this report, Chris Valasek a security researcher discusses the latest cyber threats and offer advice and best practices aimed at lowering the risk of a successful attack on enterprise systems and networks. Track:...

By increasingly relying on digital technologies and networks to conduct their operations, at a time when cyber attacks are more frequent and more severe, companies are subject to a heightened level of risk. Kroll's Alan Brill examines recently released SEC guidance on your disclosure obligations related to cybersecurity risks and cyber incidents. Track: Peak performance methodologies and proven practices that advance the management skills of IT professionals....

"This comprehensive handbook brings together expertise from industry leaders and outlines best practices for network security, asset management, assessing threats and vulnerabilities, amongst other areas of cyber protection"--Publisher.

Thieves threaten to kill a bank I.T. expert Jack Stanfield's family if he doesn't hack into a computer system through a firewall he designed in order to transfer 100 million dollars to an offshore account.

Cybersecurity experts present an accessible, informative, and fully illustrated guide to protecting yourself, your assets, and your loved ones online. As we live more of our lives online, we need to be more aware of the risks we face-and what we can do to protect ourselves. We all know that our identities can be stolen, and that intellectual property can be copied and sold. But, even scarier things are now possible. Vehicle systems can be hacked,...

When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely, it is a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime...

In 2011, Will Parker, the young prodigy CEO of a big tech company, makes a coding mistake that costs a college student her life. To assuage his guilt, Will pursues a career in the FBI Cyber Division. Now, Special Agent Will Parker is called to investigate a murder scene at a Comic Con event in the Midwest, where the victim has ties to a radioactive quantum computer that Will was working on before he left his gig as CEO. Working with smart local homicide...

Mario Silva's latest book Privacy and Security in the Age of Global Terror tackles one of the central legal and political predicaments that defines our times. Cyber security has become a worldwide issue, and where it has been found ineffective, a sense of vulnerability has developed in society. The internet-age has challenged the implications and execution of both personal and national protection and security, and stirred issues about the concept...

"In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything--drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons--free of the government's watchful eye. It wasn't long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone--not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black...