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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the re…
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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence
A fascinating and authoritative account of espionage for the digital age, from one of America’s leading intelligence experts

Spying has never been more ubiquitous―or less understood. The world is drown…
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the future of global warfare

In 2014, the world witnessed the start of an escalating series of cyberattacks. T…
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This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look…
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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at a uranium enrichment plant in Iran were failing and being replaced at an unprecedented rate. The cau…
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highl…
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Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare
This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms



We live in the age of disi…
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Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
Featuring an introduction by Rachel Maddow, Pegasus: How a Spy in Our Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most sophisticated and in…
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A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere.

Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times best-selling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker’s mindset can change how you think about y…
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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security
Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI m…
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
Social media has been weaponized, as state hackers and rogue terrorists have seized upon Twitter and Facebook to create chaos and destruction. This urgent report is required reading, from defense expe…
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Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own tech start-up to wiretap the world, shows how cunning both the authorities and drug traffickers have…
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The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’…
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The Lazarus Heist: From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War
In 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment was brutally hacked, with thousands of computers wiped and the personal data of hundreds of employees released online. This was the world's first glance at the Laz…
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Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have operated more freely—whether in drug d…
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to understand it.

It's a signal paradox of our times that we live in an information society but do not know how…
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Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
"An illuminating, entertaining tour of the physical imperfections--from faulty knees to junk DNA--that make us human. We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are su…
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Hacking the Hacker: Learn From the Experts Who Take Down Hackers
Meet the world's top ethical hackers and explore the tools of the trade

Hacking the Hacker takes you inside the world of cybersecurity to show you what goes on behind the scenes, and introduces you to …
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Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
In the Cold War era that dominated the second half of the twentieth century, nobody envisaged that the collapse of the Soviet Union would come from within, still less that it would happen meekly, with…
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The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker, teaches you easy cloaking and counter-measures for citizens and consumers in the age of Big Brother and Big Data.

Like it or not, your every move is being…
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Social Engineering
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The first book to reveal and dissect the technical aspect ofmany social engineering maneuvers From elicitation, pretexting, influence and manipulation allaspects of social engineering are picked apart…
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Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. Thi…
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource—microchip technology—with the United States and China increasingly in conflict.

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Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
One of the Next Big Idea Club's Must-Read Books

An award-winning defense expert tells the story of today’s great power rivalry―the struggle to control artificial intelligence. A new industrial revoluti…
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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Before there was money, there was debt.

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul …
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New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West
A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries—Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia—based on deep reporting from inside the White…
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World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
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A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine months before it took place, lays out the case for w…
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI, Hao is fundamentally shaping many people’s p…
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Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times Business Book of the Year

“An exceedingly important book!” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Director of the CIA

“Essential reading for understan…
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters vividly reanimates the “Golden Age” of piracy in the Americas.

Set against the backdrop of …
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Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

If they were a hall of fame or shame for computer hackers, a Kevin Mitnick plaque would be mounted the near the entrance. While other nerds were fumbling with password possibilities, this adept break-…

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