Hacked: The Inside Story of America’s Struggle to Secure Cyberspace

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The spectacular cyber attack on Sony Pictures and costly hacks of Target, Home Depot, Neiman Marcus, and databases containing sensitive data on millions of U.S. federal workers have shocked the nation. Despite a new urgency for the president, Congress, law enforcement, and corporate America to address the growing threat, the hacks keep coming—each one more pernicious than the last—from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, the Middle East, and points unknown. The continuing attacks raise a deeply disturbing question: Is the issue simply beyond the reach of our government, political leaders, business leaders, and technology visionaries to resolve? In Hacked, veteran cybersecurity journalist Charlie Mitchell reveals the innovative, occasionally brilliant, and too-often hapless government and industry responses to growing cybersecurity threats. He examines the internal power struggles in the federal government, the paralysis on Capitol Hill, and the industry's desperate effort to stay ahead of both the bad guys and the government. Contents......Page 9 Foreword......Page 11 1 “Carry Out Our Demand If You Want to Escape Us”......Page 19 2 The First Cyber President......Page 33 3 Sirens on Capitol Hill......Page 43 4 To Build a Framework......Page 59 5 The Department of Insecurity......Page 99 6 The Telecom Challenge......Page 129 7 The FTC, “Protecting America’s Consumers”......Page 147 8 Fear and Failure, Again, on Capitol Hill......Page 161 9 The Information-Sharing Matrix......Page 173 10 A New Congress Brings a New Energy to Cyber Debate......Page 185 11 The Promise and Peril of “Strong Encryption”......Page 207 12 Cyber Tensions Define the U.S.-China Relationship......Page 215 13 Help Wanted, Desperately, for Cybersecurity......Page 227 14 Senate Debate Takes Shape, Then—Surprise!—Stalls......Page 233 15 At Long Last, the Political System Arrives at an Answer......Page 261 16 The Unfinished Journey......Page 273 Author’s Note......Page 293 Bibliographical Essay......Page 297 Index......Page 313 About the Author......Page 319