Targeted Cyber Attacks || Introduction

✍ Scribed by Sood, Aditya K

• Book ID: 126135758
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 376 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0128006048
• DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800604-7.00001-2

✦ Synopsis

Cyber-crime increasingly impacts both the online and offline world, and targeted attacks play a significant role in disrupting services in both. Targeted attacks are those that are aimed at a particular individual, group, or type of site or service. Unlike worms and viruses that usually attack indiscriminately, targeted attacks involve intelligence-gathering and planning to a degree that drastically changes its profile.

Individuals, corporations, and even governments are facing new threats from targeted attacks. Targeted Cyber Attacks examines real-world examples of directed attacks and provides insight into what techniques and resources are used to stage these attacks so that you can counter them more effectively.

• A well-structured introduction into the world of targeted cyber-attacks
• Includes analysis of real-world attacks
• Written by cyber-security researchers and experts