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Constant fear / by Palmer, Daniel,1962-author.(CARDINAL)503333;
A doomsday prepper and private school custodian must rescue his genius hacker son, who is caught by a brutal drug cartel for electronically siphoning off their funds.When a drunk-driving accident ruined his life, only a popular survivalist blog helped to restore Jake's sense of control. He's become an avid Doomsday Prepper, raising his diabetic son, Andy, to be ready for any sudden catastrophe. Jake works as a custodian at isolated Pepperell Academy where Andy is a student-- and part of a secret computer club that redistributes money from the obscenely wealthy to the needy. But this time, they've stolen from the wrong people: a vicious drug cartel that is coming to get its money back.... and now Jake is the last, best hope these students have of getting out alive
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Computer crimes; Hacktivism; Hostages; Private schools;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 25
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Coding democracy : how hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism / by Webb, Maureen,author.; Doctorow, Cory,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-368) and index.Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era.
Subjects: Cyberspace; Hacktivism.; Computer security.; Internet; Democratization.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cult of the dead cow : how the original hacking supergroup might just save the world / by Menn, Joseph,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.The players -- An evening in San Francisco -- Texas T-files -- The cons -- Underground Boston -- Back orifice -- One million dollars and a monster truck -- Oxblood -- Much @stake -- Tor and Citizen Lab -- Jake -- Mixter, Muench, and Phineas -- Mudge and Dildog -- The congressman and the trolls -- Epilogue.The fast-paced, riveting story of the hacking collective that is using technology as a force for good, and fighting back against corporations and countries that are going after our freedom, privacy, even our democracy.
Subjects: Cult of the Dead Cow.; Hacktivism.; Hackers.; Secret societies.; Computer security.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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A for Anonymous : how a mysterious hacker collective transformed the world / by Kushner, David,author.(CARDINAL)829279; Shadmi, Koren,artist.(CARDINAL)493669;
Subjects: Comics (Graphic works); Graphic novels.; Novels.; Anonymous (Group); Hacktivism;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Democracy hacked : political turmoil and information warfare in the digital age / by Moore, Martin,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1: hackers -- Individuals: the freextremist model -- Plutocrats: the Mercer model -- States: the Russia model -- Part 2: systems failure -- The Facebook elections -- Anarchy in the Googlesphere -- The unbearable lightness of Twitter -- Part 3: alternative futures -- Platform democracy -- Surveillance democracy -- Democracy rehacked."How hackers interfere in our democratic processes -- using Facebook, data mining, micro-targeting, the alt-right, psy-ops and more -- and what we need to do to save democracy for the digital age"
Subjects: Democracy.; Hacktivism.; Information warfare.; Internet;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Genius : the con / by Gout, Leopoldo,author.(CARDINAL)357275; Gout, Leopoldo.Genius series.;
Three young geniuses from around the globe hatch a plot to trick a vicious warlord, infiltrate a mastermind's organization, protect their families, and save the world.670LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Genius; Good and evil; Hacking; Hacktivism; Friendship; Corruption; Young adult fiction.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Genius : the con / by Gout, Leopoldo,author.(CARDINAL)357275;
Three young geniuses from around the globe hatch a plot to trick a vicious warlord, infiltrate a mastermind's organization, protect their families, and save the world.Tunde, self-taught engineering genius from Nigeria, is in a race against time to save his village from a ruthless warlord. Painted Wolf, activist blogger and strategist from China, is searching for a way to rescue her father from the corruption he's inadvertently been caught up in. Rex, a Mexican-American, has proven himself to be one of the best programmers in the world, only to be falsely accused of stealing billions of government secrets for the terrorist hacking group Terminal. They have to move fast and stay low: they're pursued by the police, the FBI and-- most dangerous of all-- Kiran Biswas, visionary CEO and evil mastermind.670LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Genius; Good and evil; Hacking; Hacktivism; Friendship; Corruption; Friendships.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Propaganda & misinformation / by Grey House Publishing, Inc.,compiler.(CARDINAL)381300;
Includes bibliographical references and index.1. The story of untruth ;
Subjects: Reference works.; Mass media and propaganda; Disinformation; Artificial intelligence; Government information; Hacktivism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The plot to hack America : how Putin's cyberspies and WikiLeaks tried to steal the 2016 election / by Nance, Malcolm W.,author.(CARDINAL)357293;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-186).Watergate 2.0 -- Suspicions of something more sinister -- The spymaster-in-chief -- Trump's agents, Putin's assets -- Operation LUCKY-7: the Kremlin plan to elect a president -- Battles of the CYBER BEARS -- WikiLeaks: Russia's intelligence laundromat -- When CYBER BEARS attack -- Cyberwar to defend democracy.The thrilling true story of how Putin's spy agency, run by the Russian billionaire class, used the promise of power and influence to cultivate Trump as well as his closest aides, the Kremlin Crew, to become unwitting assets of the Russian government. In April 2016, computer technicians at the Democratic National Committee discovered that someone had accessed the organization's computer servers. The FBI found that more than twenty-five state election offices had their voter registration systems probed or attacked by the same hackers. The hack was tracked to Russian spy agencies and the stolen information channeled to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. The goal of the attack: to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States.
Subjects: Presidents; Hacktivism; Internet in espionage; Elections;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Ethics and cyber warfare : the quest for responsible security in the age of digital warfare / by Lucas, George R.,author.(CARDINAL)725206;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: crime or warfare? -- Cyber (in)security: threat assessment in the cyber domain -- Is there a role for ethics or law in cyber conflict? -- The Tallinn Manual: international law in the aftermath of Estonia -- Genuine ethics versus {28}folk morality.From North Koreas recent attacks on Sony to perpetual news reports of successful hackings and criminal theft, cyber conflict has emerged as a major topic of public concern. Yet even as attacks on military, civilian, and commercial targets have escalated, there is not yet a clear set of ethical guidelines that apply to cyber warfare. Indeed, like terrorism, cyber warfare is commonly believed to be a war without rules. Given the prevalence cyber warfare, developing a practical moral code for this new form of conflict is more important than ever. In Ethics and Cyber Warfare, internationally-respected ethicist George Lucas delves into the confounding realm of cyber conflict. Comparing state-sponsored hacktivism.
Subjects: Computer crimes.; Cyberspace operations (Military science); Hacktivism.; Information technology; Information warfare; Just war doctrine.; National security.; State crimes.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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