Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
    Unavailable
    Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
    Unavailable
    Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
    Audiobook10 hours

    Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It

    Written by Robert K. Knake and Richard A. Clarke

    Narrated by Pete Larkin

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Read the ebook instead

    About this audiobook

    Richard A. Clarke warned America once before about the havoc terrorism would wreak on our national security-and he was right. Now he warns us of another threat, silent but equally dangerous. Cyber War is a powerful book about technology, government, and military strategy; about criminals, spies, soldiers, and hackers. This is the first book about the war of the future-cyber war-and a convincing argument that we may already be in peril of losing it.

    Cyber War goes behind the "geek talk" of hackers and computer scientists to explain clearly and convincingly what cyber war is, how cyber weapons work, and how vulnerable we are as a nation and as individuals to the vast and looming web of cyber criminals. From the first cyber crisis meeting in the White House a decade ago to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the electrical tunnels under Manhattan, Clarke and coauthor Robert K. Knake trace the rise of the cyber age and profile the unlikely characters and places at the epicenter of the battlefield. They recount the foreign cyber spies who hacked into the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's latest fighter aircraft.

    Economically and militarily, Clarke and Knake argue, what we've already lost in the new millennium's cyber battles is tantamount to the Soviet and Chinese theft of our nuclear bomb secrets in the 1940s and 1950s. The possibilities of what we stand to lose in an all-out cyber war-our individual and national security among them-are just as chilling. Powerful and convincing, Cyber War begins the critical debate about the next great threat to national security.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Audio
    Release dateMar 5, 2014
    ISBN9781494570187

    Related to Cyber War

    Related audiobooks

    Politics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      From The Editor In Chief

      Sep 10, 2018

      AFTER YEARS OF REFINEMENT, a new weapon started cutting a swath through the battlefields of Europe. It was relatively cheap, accurate, easy to use—and so powerful it could punch through the best defenses. With the touch of a trigger, anyone carrying

      2 min read

    • Article

      From The Editor In Chief

      Apr 25, 2019

      From The Editor In Chief
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Deadly $125-Billion ICBM Boondoggle

      Feb 27, 2024

      If the Air Force really wanted to protect Americans, it would get rid of land-based ICBMs, not spend billions of dollars on new ones.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Book In The News… How Microchips Came To Define The Age

      Dec 9, 2022

      The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology Chris MillerSimon & Schuster, £20 The manufacture of semiconductors is more important than ever, as Covid-19-related microchip shortages and US export controls have brought home to us – the chips a

      1 min read

    • Article

      Plenty on Senate Intel Chair Mark Warner’s breakfast plate

      Mar 27, 2023

      Between security concerns around China – including the TikTok app, which is owned by a Chinese company – and the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, Mark Warner is one busy senator. The Virginia Democrat is chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelli

      2 min read

    • Article

      'The Era Of Hope Is Over'

      May 22, 2020

      'The Era Of Hope Is Over'
      12 min read

    • Article

      The New Weapons We Need

      Aug 20, 2017

      The New Weapons We Need
      3 min read

    • Article

      A New Nuclear Era Is Coming

      Jan 9, 2020

      A New Nuclear Era Is Coming
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Race for Big Ideas Is On

      Jan 13, 2020

      The Race for Big Ideas Is On
      8 min read

    • Article

      A Little Bird Told Me

      Dec 14, 2021

      The Premise: Since the 1950s, the United States has had a plan on how the government could survive a nuclear attack. In August 1949, the Soviet Union detonated their first atomic bomb, sparking the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the early day

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Courage to Kneel

      Sep 28, 2017

      Kneel, touch the earth. "Oh say can you see . . . " The anthem starts. I can feel the courage . . . of Colin Kaepernick, the (then) San Francisco 49ers quarterback who refused to stand for the national war hymn, not when one of the wars was directed

      3 min read

    • Article

      Cømputer Freaks

      May 9, 2023

      Cømputer Freaks
      6 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: Nuclear Weapons And Cranial Winter

      Apr 14, 2022

      Nuclear sanity: ultimate (or, God help us, immediate) disarmament. Nuclear insanity: ongoing development and deployment, endless investment, eventual (either accidental or intentional) use. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., addressing Congress several weeks a

      3 min read

    • Article

      The PM And The Boffins

      Feb 11, 2022

      The PM And The Boffins
      11 min read

    Reviews for Cyber War

    3.5/5

    49 ratings7 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      This book was published in April, 2010 by the renowned Richard Clarke, a security expert if ever there was. This reader is seeking a cave dwelling, fully furnished and supplied with 4 years of food and plenty of water. Negotiable. I would prefer a landlord that has never heard of Richard Clarke, and who believes in the miracles of the Easter Bunny
    • 3/5
      A good start ...

      Richard Clarke's Cyber War does a good job of placing cyber warfare in the context of cyber attacks and espionage generally. He also has specific, realistic and comprehensive policy recommendations. But the book seems thin and watered down. Perhaps this has more to say about what this consummate insider is not at liberty to discuss than it does about cyber war.
    • 3/5
      This is a very American centric book, which is fair enough, the primary author has been on various policy committees in the US administration.

      There is a fair amount of detail, and he spends quite a lot of time looking at the parts of American policy that have huge gaps, and the fact that successive governments have failed to address key infrastructure points and are wide open to logic bombs and attacks from hackers.

      It is very readable, especially as some of the networking stuff is way above my head. It does make you wonder how the UK would be affected by all of this.
    • 5/5
      Reading this book scared me, because we rely on computers everyday for many important things and that the security is not what it should be. As evidenced in the numerous data breaches across the country continue to show us. Financial and the power grid are just a couple of the vulnerable places mentioned in this book.
    • 2/5
      I was really looking forward to reading this book, and really conflicted in my opinions while reading it.

      Mr. Clarke clearly knows enough to be dangerous, but I couldn't shake a feeling throughout the book that something about this book was just *wrong*. One one hand it has some insightful commentary on the sticky situations involved with cyberwarfare, and on the other completely lacks a bibliography or references to back up his claims regarding the current state of affairs.

      The author's experience in government has definitely shaped a good portion of this book, but at times it seemed like he had a heavy axe to grind and was trying to right past slights to his policies.

      There is definitely room in the genre for an accessible book detailing the new reality of cyberwarfare, but it's hard to say this is the one when every single one of the authors claims come devoid of any sort of reference material. By gutting his factual arguments of any accessible means of verification, it undermined his overall argument for the proposed solution.

    • 4/5
      Well, I used to worry that climate change was going to be the end of human civilization. Now I know we aren't going to make it that far for this to be a legitimate worry. All of our systems are going to come crashing down around our ears from compromised computer networks. A freightening book that proves China is going to inherit the Earth, if only because they can disconnect from the Internet and still carry on when everything goes South. The denial of service attacks on MasterCard and VISA this week are only the tip of the iceberg, according to this book.
    • 3/5
      Clarke's book is a somewhat decent read. At nearly 300 pages, it could easily have been condensed to approximately 200 pages if the redundant and cyclic references were removed. The repeated references do assist Clarke in making his over-arching point of the weaknesses in the digital infrastructure of the United States -- but this also served to make me feel like I was being beaten repeatedly over the head with the same statements. Further hurting Clarke was a lack of technical explanation for some of these points, which brought to mind the thought of "just because you repeat it often enough will not make it true". Despite these short-comings, the book does present some of the legislative and governmental problems in dealing with the uncharted and complicated world of "cyber-space". Clarke's critique of governmental platitudes and lackluster understanding of how connected civilian, government and military infrastructures are to today's internet are eye-opening. Overall, the book is an excellent introduction to the concepts of digital warfare, but is extremely light-weight in regards to any technical approach of the topic. Clarke is extremely knowledgeable of how to navigate through the legislative waters in regards to the topic though - which is easily the prime strength of the material throughout.