Cyber Strategies for a World at War

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January 21, 2009 • 20:16

Seeking Obama’s Cyber Czar

By Andy Greenberg
December 19, 2008
Forbes

Should the head of cybersecurity in the new administration come from private industry, government or the military?

For weeks, blogs have been buzzing about which Silicon Valley luminary will be tapped as President-elect Barack Obama’s chief technology officer, the most innovation-focused position in what has been touted as a hyper-innovative regime.

But the Obama team may also be quietly preparing another, less-flashy tech role. The president-elect has alluded to appointing a so-called “cyber adviser,” charged with protecting the government and critical infrastructure from a growing wave of hackers and cyberspies.

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Literature

Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters

Managerial Guide for Handling Cyber-Terrorism and Information Warfare

Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism

Cyberwar 2.0: Myths, Mysteries & Reality

Hactivism and Cyberwars: Rebels with a Cause

The Convergence of U.S. Military and Commercial Space Activities: Self- Defense and Cyber-Attack, 'Peace Use' and the Space Station, and the Need for Legal Reform

Cyber-Threats, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection: Defending the U.S. Homeland

High-Tech Crimes Revealed: Cyberwar Stories from the Digital Front

Information Warfare: How to Survive Cyber Attacks

Threats Against Russia's Information Society

Insider Attack and Cyber Security: Beyond the Hacker (Advances in Information Security)

Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror

Breakpoint

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On this island, all suspicious activity leads inexorably to Dr. Julius No, a reclusive megalomaniac with steel pincers for hands. To find out what the good doctor is hiding, 007 must enlist the aid of local fisherman Quarrel and alluring beachcomber Honeychile Rider. Together they will combat a local legend the natives call “the Dragon,” before Bond alone must face the most punishing test of all: an obstacle course—designed by the sadistic Dr. No himself—that measures the limits of the human body’s capacity for agony.

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