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HSEC 690
Cyber Warfare & Cyber Terrorism

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Required Readings

Available freely via Enrollment

Portions of the following books have been graciously made available by the authors exclusively to students enrolled in this course. You need not purchase these books (savings of $140). Links to chapters will be provided via the course website.

Cyberthreats Terror on the Internet Surviving Cyberwar Black Ice
Cyberpower and National Security Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar Vanderbilt JOTL Zero Day

Retired

These books are no longer used in this course but may still be of interest.

Countdown Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace Inside Cyber Warfare Cyber Warfare

Available freely Online

These articles or whitepapers will be used in class but are freely available online.

Tracking Ghostnet Cyber Crime Chinese Capabilities Strategic Studies
PRISM Symantec Attack Kits Green Hat Gang New Internet
Pentagon Strategy New Domain Onward Forbes Lulz
NATO CCDCOE Symantec Stuxnet Night Dragon Shady RAT
Maynor Graham Marquis Boire Geotag OPSEC
Robin Sage Josh Lemos McAfee Mandiant

Videos to Watch

Students will watch these recorded lectures, documentaries, or television special investigations.

Frontline 60 Minutes 60 Minutes 60 Minutes
Mandiant Code Wars System Crash System Crash
RSA 2010 Blackhat 2010 Exaggerated Cyber Shockwave
Al Jazeera Al Jazeera Al Jazeera Anonymous
Scary Stuff Speed Traders Copiers Web Warriors
Cyber Defense Exercise National Geographic Hack It ADF
Norton Ralph Langner Pablos Holman Economist Richard Clarke

Policy Documents

These official U.S. policy documents will help you with your policy research paper.

PCCIP
Oct 1997
NPISP
Jan 2000
NSSC
Feb 2003
CSIARD
Apr 2006
44th
Dec 2008
CPR
May 2009
CNCI
Mar 2010
2yrs
Jan 2011
NSTIC
Apr 2011
DoD 2011
Jul 2011
NCCIP 2011
Dec 2013

Pleasure

These books are recommended guides, biographies, or fictional novels.

Breakpoint
$7.99
The Art of Deception
$10.49
Ghost in the Wires
$8.89
The Art of Human Hacking
$19.49
How to Own the Box
$31.89
How to Own an Identity
$33.59
How to Own a Continent
$44.41