Preventa de eBooks de Seguridad infórmatica

Es una paradoja de nuestros tiempos que vivamos en la sociedad de la información, pero no entendamos cómo funciona. ¿Qué pasaría si supiésemos más? En Fancy Bear se va de phishing, Scott J. Shapiro recurre a su popular clase en la universidad de Yale sobre hackeo para mostrar que el cibercrimen tiene menos que ver con la programacion defectuosa que con el cableado imperfecto de nuestra psique y nuestra cultura. Cuenta la historia de perpetradores ilustres, como Robert Morris Jr., el estudiante de postgrado que se cargo Internet de forma accidental en los ochenta, y el bulgaro Dark Avenger, quien invento el primer motor de virus informaticos mutantes. Tambien conocemos al adolescente de dieciseis años del sur de Boston que se hizo con el control del movil de Paris Hilton, los agentes de inteligencia rusos que trataron de controlar unas elecciones en EE. UU., y otros.Al relatar sus historias, Shapiro expone los kits de herramientas para hackers y revela que los cibercriminales no solo hacen un mal uso del codigo informatico, sino que tambien explotan los principios filosoficos de la informatica: las mismas caracteristicas que hacen posibles los ordenadores tambien hacen posible el hackeo. Explica como funciona en realidad nuestra sociedad de la informacion, la manera en que nuestros datos se almacenan y se manipulan y por que son tan vulnerables a la explotacion. Mezcla de jugueteo intelectual y narrativa dramatica de crimenes reales, Fancy Bear se va de phishing expone los secretos de la era digital. Aqui hay hackeo, espionaje, guerra y cibercrimen como nunca habias leido antes.

From cave paintings and clay tablets to the algorithmic state, this groundbreaking 11,000 year history argues that information has always been the seed of power. Perfect for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.This brilliant, readable book offers a striking new historical perspectiveProfessor Corinne Fowler, author of Our Island StoriesLong before writing existed, at the dawn of civilisation in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed marks into clay to keep track of land, people and grain. To rule, they had to keep count. It is no accident, then, that the first written name in human history was neither a god nor a king, but an accountant.As ships and navigation expanded our horizons, a new age of European empires took control of more than 80 per cent of the worlds surface, using censuses, maps and ledgers to decide who belonged, who owed, and who could be sacrificed. Today, we live in the third great era, when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable yet from targeted advertising to border policing and mass surveillance, data shapes the course of our lives.Drawing on stories from ancient cave markings and knotted strings to colonial record-keeping and the algorithmic state, Dartmouth professor Roopika Risam reveals how data has always been the seed of power: a technology of control that has shaped civilizations and upheld empires. Provocative, humane and sweeping in scope, Data Empire asks us to recognise the power data has always held and to imagine what resistance looks like in an age defined by it, so that we might remake the modern world for the benefit of all.

In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pockets This is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that, in a matter of decades, has transformed the way we understand space and time, making us critically dependent on vulnerable technology we often forget is even there. It is a system that was conceived of as a military product designed for war, but which has since evolved into a vital everyday tool that tells us where we are and when at any given point. But its use doesnt stop there: GPS has transformed our navigation systems and our global trade, our farms and our supermarkets, our stop lights, banking networks, and our energy systems. It overturned online dating, exercise regimens, travel planning and takeaways. It reshaped our daily lives, and then it transformed us. When GPS took away our familiarity with getting lost, it also stripped us of our ability to hide turning our place in the world into a mappable, knowable entity, and put us, a blinking blue dot on a screen, at its centre. In this thrilling, page-turning work of narrative non-fiction that touches on tech, geopolitics, international relations and economics Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of an essential global system that touches all our lives. With echoes of Kleptopia, The Fifth Risk and Prisoners of Geography, as well as echoes of Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flynn and Entangled Life by Merlion Sheldrake in the way it exposes a hidden, esoteric system that we all rely on this is a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pockets.

A groundbreaking critique of the philosophical foundations of computing.Computational Reflections is a wholly original investigation into the philosophical foundations of computing. The authors lifetime of work is distilled into this volume, which explores what it means to compute.The standard theoretical foundations of computer science address the fundamental concept of mechanism but almost completely ignore the crucial role of meaning in any computational practice. Cantwell Smith takes the reader through these missing foundational gaps, including a historical analysis of why the field has reached its current state.Despite its lack of treatment of semantics (meaning), computer science has borrowed and adopted semantic vocabulary to refer to mechanistic concepts, thus aggravating confusion within and without the field, especially so in philosophy, cognitive science, and contemporary artificial intelligence. This books arguments help to illustrate why computer science theory has almost nothing to say about computation in the wildor the real-world practice of programmers and engineers who design the software and devices that we all use. The author argues that a true account of computation must do justice to the incredible complexity juggled by programmers in creating software that works, and he offers not only criticism but also directions for a successor account of computing.

This view from the other side of the search box is both charming and insightful, tapping into a deep well of curiosity.Tim Harford, author of How to Make the World Add UpEver wondered what goes through other peoples minds their silly questions, their inner anxieties, hopes and dreams?In What We Ask Google, the companys Data Editor Simon Rogers explores insights from the worlds biggest dataset: an epic snapshot, two decades long and counting, of our collective brain. What it reveals about us might surprise you.In June the UK sees a spike in searches for how to help a beeWhere is Chuck Norris? is the 17th most common English language question of all timeAround the world, its 2am when parents want to know how to get their baby to sleepReassuringly, people consistently want to know, How often can you donate plasma?Brimming with insights that vary from the playful to the profound, What We Ask Google delves into the momentous and the mundane secrets of what we ask when we get the chance to ask anything, offering a surprisingly hopeful picture of humankind.

They Broke the Internet is narrative nonfiction about modern system failure. Through a series of real-world cyber attacks, the book shows how trusted digital systems quietly broke downand how governments, businesses, and ordinary people only realized it once real life stopped working. Written in a clear, story-driven style, it reads like true crime for the digital age.The internet rarely fails all at once. It frays quietly, behind the scenes, through small mistakes, misplaced trust, and delayed decisionsuntil the consequences spill into everyday life.They Broke the Internet tells the true stories of the cyber attacks that exposed the fragility of modern systems. From ransomware shutting down fuel pipelines to spyware unraveling lives at the highest levels of power, each chapter reconstructs how an attack unfolded, why it worked, and what finally made the damage impossible to ignore.Rather than focusing on technical exploits, the book centers on human judgment, institutional blind spots, and cascading failure. These attacks did not succeed because attackers were superhuman, but because organizations were slow, siloed, or unprepared to recognize weak signals. The result is a gripping, accessible history that helps readers understand how cyber incidents escape the screen and reshape the real world.

An illustrated bestiary of malware creatures, drawn with charm and precision by a security professional.Discover the (Un)Natural history of malware through the eyes of a slightly obsessive Victorian naturalist who has wandered straight into cyberspace.In this lavishly illustrated volume, malware strains are reimagined as creatures in a digital ecosystem. Each Malmon (Malware Monster) is cataloged like a rare specimen: given a Latin-style name, described in formal field notes with anatomical notes, habitats, and behavioral quirks, and rendered in intricate black-and-white plates that echo 19th-century natural history engravings. Readers meet iconic creatures such as ILOVEYOU, Nimda, SQL Slammer, Stuxnet, WannaCry, TrickBot, Gh0st RAT, Raspberry Robin, and Industroyer, not as blobs of code but as invasive species, parasites, predators, and swarming colonies.Instead of explaining APIs and tools, the book follows the life histories of these organisms: where they live, how they spread, what they feed on, and how they evolve. The result is a unique hybrid of pop science, security history, and Victorian natural history that is accessible to curious general readers, yet grounded enough for security professionals and students.